(The bugs #607838 and #628116 in desktop-base are duplicates.) According to both bug-reports two files are linking to a non-existing image file. Why isn't this already fixed? Why did nobody care? The answer seems to be simple: The files are not needed.
Out of curiosity I did a bit of a research about this matter. It seems, nautilus was once patched to show the swirl (/usr/share/pixmaps/debian-logo.png) and the swirl with the lock (debian-security.png) to make the whole desktop look more "debian-like". At least this is mentioned in a mail from 2004 [1]. In 2004, commanding dpkg -L nautilus-data | grep -i debian lead to this result: /usr/share/doc/nautilus-data/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/nautilus/initial-desktop/debian-homepage.desktop /usr/share/nautilus/initial-desktop/debian-reference.desktop /usr/share/nautilus/initial-desktop/debian-security.desktop When I do this now in Debian Wheezy, the result is just: /usr/share/doc/nautilus-data/changelog.Debian.gz So the debian*.desktop files are no longer used by nautilus-data. This is confirmed by Michael Biebl in an entry to that changelog.Debian.gz from 2011: nautilus (3.2.1-2) unstable; urgency=low (...) - Drop Recommends on desktop-base. It was originally added when nautilus was patched to show the .desktop icons from the desktop-base package. We don't do that anymore, so the Recommends has become obsolete. [2] So the following files in desktop-base seem to be obsolete: debian-homepage.desktop debian-reference.desktop debian-security.desktop pixmaps/debian-security.png source/debian-security.xcf and also the references to these files in /debian/README.Debian (section 1.2 and 2.) Perhaps we could resolve the bugs by removing these files from the next version of desktop-base? Happy new year! Ulrich [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2004/03/msg00212.html [2] /usr/share/doc/nautilus-data/changelog.Debian.gz BTW: /usr/share/pixmaps/debian-logo.png comes from the debhelper package and not from desktop-base. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org