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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 14.06.2015 um 13:59 schrieb Emilio Pozuelo Monfort:
> On 14/06/15 13:36, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Am 14.06.2015 um 13:30 schrieb Michael Biebl:
>>> I'm not too thrilled by the thought of that, tbh.
>>> file-roller also requires the nautils gsettings schema from nautilus-data.
>>
>> So, I checked the code, and file-roller uses
>> _g_settings_new_if_schema_installed() to load the nautilus gsettings
>> schema. So it should be able to cope with nautilus-data not being installed.
>>
>> I would therefore be ok with dropping the nautilus-data dependency. But
>> I'm against splitting off the nautilus extension. It's a tiny lib after all.
> 
> Can we exclude that from shlibdeps detection? If you don't have nautilus
> installed, it doesn't matter that libnautilus-extension is missing. And if both
> are installed, then you can use the extension. I think we do that with various
> other extensions/plugins.

Well, imho that's an unclean hack, since we can't reliably detect
anymore, if the extension has been rebuilt against a new version of
libnautilus-extension, should there be the an ABI bump, or is there?


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