Bug#788690: file-roller: Please provide a separate package for the nautilus extension

[Margarita Manterola]

Package: file-roller
Version: 3.16.2-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

File-roller currently provides a unique package that includes the nautilus
extension and therefore has libnautilus-extension1a and nautilus-data as
dependencies (which means that also nautilus and other gnome programs are pulled
in). It would be better to have a separate package (for example,
fileroller-nautilus) that would provide the extension file and have the nautilus
dependencies.

With this strategy it would be possible to have a file-roller package that
doesn't force nautilus installation. So that users of other file managers (like
nemo or thunar) can install file-roller without also installing unused programs
(nautilus and the rest of the gnome deps).

This would mean changing the gnome package to depend on fileroller-nautilus as
well as file-roller. As an option, to avoid having to make that change,
file-roller could include a recommends, like this:

Recommends: fileroller-nautilus | nemo-fileroller | thunar-archive-plugin

In this case, the old behavior can be maintained while at the same time allowing
users of other file managers to not have to install nautilus.

Thanks!
Marga, on behalf of the cinnamon team.