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 <[email protected]>: >> 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?
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>> 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.
Thanks,
+Emilien
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