Bug#1035538: nautilus: Missing dependency on "eject" package

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 12:33 AM Andrew Ruthven  wrote:
> If the eject package isn't installed, when you try to eject a USB device
> (I didn't test anything else), then Nautilus is unable to eject the device
> and throws up an error like:
>
> Error ejecting /dev/sda: Error spawning command-line `eject '/dev/sda'': 
> Failed to execute chidl process "eject" (No such file or directory) 
> (g-exec-error-quark, 8).
>
> I reckon that the natilus package should depend on the eject package.

eject is an indirect Recommends. The Debian GNOME team strongly urges
people to not disable installing Recommends unless you're very sure
you know what packages are missing.

nautilus depends on gvfs which depends on gvfs-daemons which depends
on udisks2 which recommends eject.

Nevertheless, I am making this a Depends now since the error popup
user experience is not good and we want things to work well for
everyone.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

Bug#1035538: nautilus: Missing dependency on "eject" package

[Andrew Ruthven]

Package: nautilus
Version: 43.2-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

If the eject package isn't installed, when you try to eject a USB device
(I didn't test anything else), then Nautilus is unable to eject the device
and throws up an error like:

Error ejecting /dev/sda: Error spawning command-line `eject '/dev/sda'': Failed 
to execute chidl process "eject" (No such file or directory) 
(g-exec-error-quark, 8).

I reckon that the natilus package should depend on the eject package.

Cheers,
Andrew

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
  APT prefers testing-security
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_AUX
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  bubblewrap  0.8.0-2
ii  desktop-file-utils  0.26-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas   43.0-1
ii  gvfs1.50.3-1
ii  libadwaita-1-0  1.2.2-1
ii  libc6   2.36-9
ii  libcairo2   1.16.0-7
ii  libcloudproviders0  0.3.1-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.10+dfsg-1+b1
ii  libgexiv2-2 0.14.0-1+b1
ii  libglib2.0-02.74.6-2
ii  libglib2.0-data 2.74.6-2
ii  libgnome-autoar-0-0 0.4.3-1
ii  libgnome-desktop-4-243.2-2
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0  1.22.0-3
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0   1.22.0-2
ii  libgtk-4-1  4.8.3+ds-2
ii  libnautilus-extension4  43.2-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0  1.50.12+ds-1
ii  libportal-gtk4-10.6-4
ii  libportal1  0.6-4
ii  libselinux1 3.4-1+b5
ii  libtracker-sparql-3.0-0 3.4.2-1
ii  nautilus-data   43.2-1
ii  shared-mime-info2.2-1
ii  tracker 3.4.2-1
ii  tracker-extract 3.4.3-1
ii  tracker-miner-fs3.4.3-1

Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
ii  gnome-sushi   43.0-2
ii  gvfs-backends 1.50.3-1
pn  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin  
ii  librsvg2-common   2.54.5+dfsg-1

Versions of packages nautilus suggests:
ii  eog 43.2-1
ii  evince [pdf-viewer] 43.1-2+b1
pn  nautilus-extension-brasero  
ii  nautilus-sendto 3.8.6-3.1
ii  totem   43.0-2
ii  vlc [mp3-decoder]   3.0.18-2
ii  xdg-user-dirs   0.18-1

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