[pkg-cinnamon] nautilus and open-terminal extension

[Fabio Fantoni]

Il 14/12/2014 16:56, Emilien Klein ha scritto:
> Hi Michael and the Cinnamon team,
>
> On 10/26/2014 09:50 PM, Emilien Klein wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> 2014-10-26 14:22 GMT+01:00 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> a couple of days ago, we had a user stop by on #debian-gnome, who was
>>> confused because his nautilus had two "Open terminal" entries in the RMB
>>> context menu.
>>>
>>> The issue here is, that newer versions of nautilus have that feature
>>> built in and the user also had the nautilus-open-terminal package
>>> installed, resulting in the duplicated menu entry.
>> Thanks for passing on the information and the result of your investigation.
>>
>>> Now that nautilus-open-terminal is no longer required to provide that
>>> functionality, we were wondering what to do about.
>>>
>>> Should the nautilus-open-terminal package be dropped from the archive
>>> and nautilus have a Conflicts: nautilus-open-terminal, so the package is
>>> removed on upgrades?
>>> Or as an alternative, nautilus-open-terminal could become an empty dummy
>>> package in jessie, which simply depends on a recent enough version of
>>> nautilus and in jessie+1 we simply drop the package.
>> I'm not sure what might have been done in similar situations for other
>> packages: what is the cleanest way to deprecate a package whose
>> functionality is provided by another package? Whatever you recommend,
>> I'll work on that solution with e.g. the Nautilus packagers.
> Should we go with the alternative option proposed by Michael, making the
> package empty and dropping it in jessie+1?
>
> [snip]
>
>>> I've also CCed the cinnamon team. Not sure if their nautilus fork nemo
>>> would be affected by this and if they'd like to keep the extension for nemo.
> Cinnamon team, please confirm removing this Nautilus extension won't
> negatively impact nemo.

I don't think there is someone that use nautilus extensions packages on
nemo, nemo have its extensions
(https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo-extensions) even if for now only one
(nemo-fileroller) is present in debian repository.

>
> Thanks,
>     +Emilien
>
>


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