nautilus and open-terminal extension

[Emilien Klein]

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.

> Julien, you seem to be most active uploader of that package, so your
> input would be appreciated.

Julien has transitioned the package to me in 2011 as he was not using
Gnome/Nautilus anymore at that time already, and he has let me know that
he is very much inactive in Debian at this moment. I am thus moving him
to BCC (that way, he gets my response, but won't be on the rest of the
email chain. He could still reply to this message if he wanted to jump
in the discussion).

> 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.

Thanks.
I have opened bug #766919 against nautilus-open-terminal to track this
discussion, and the chosen solution.

Cheers,
    +Emilien

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