Bug#927221: gvfs-fuse version-specific depend on fuse (>= 2.8.4) blocks trans to fuse3

[Ron Lovell]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:24:21 +0100 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org>
wrote:

> Does fuse3 provide everything that's needed to mount and unmount
older
> FUSE filesystems that are still linked to libfuse2, like gvfs-fuse?
> 
> If it does, then gvfs-fuse can depend on fuse (>= 2.8.4) | fuse3, or
> just depend on plain "fuse" which is provided by fuse3 (since 2.8.4
is

Hello, Simon,

Thanks for your quick reply. Clearly I've been focused on library deps
only and didn't understand the importance of the utility commands. Let
me dig down and understand this better. BTW, I posted the message #15
about co-installability of fuse and fuse3 before I saw your message.
Did #912528 only solve part of the problem? There appears to be a
disconnect between the Bugs database and reality.

Building a modified package locally is something I certainly need to
learn how to do, so I'll work on that. Then I know I can test fuse-
exfat, the existing sshfs 2, and set up a Samba server.

Thanks for your very informative replay.
Best regards,
Ron