Bug#515175: file-roller: Can't open .deb by default (aka should recommend binutils)
Hi! On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 12:31:14 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: In Bug 515175, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: Package: file-roller Version: 2.22.4-2 Severity: normal On a default gnome-desktop system (Lenny), .deb files (application/x-deb) are associated with file-roller, but it can't open it. Please recommend or depend on the package binutils (which provides /bin/ar). 1. Should file-roller (and similar programs) use /bin/ar or dpkg-deb to extract the contents of archives? If it should use /bin/ar, then wouldn't it be sensible to move ar to another package than binutils, so we don't need to install on all gnome dsktops? Ideally it should try to use dpkg-deb if that's present, and fallback to use ar otherwise. On the other hand, if (Gnome) file-roller were to use dpkg-deb, it would be probably be broken on rpm based distributions. AFAIK on rpm based distros ar is also generally provided by the binutils package. So this is something that has to be fixed by the package metadata, either making file-roller.rpm depend on binutils.rpm or dpkg.rpm (if they have that). regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#515175: file-roller: Can't open .deb by default (aka should recommend binutils)
Package: file-roller Version: 2.22.4-2 Severity: normal On a default gnome-desktop system (Lenny), .deb files (application/x-deb) are associated with file-roller, but it can't open it. Please recommend or depend on the package binutils (which provides /bin/ar). Thanks -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages file-roller depends on: ii bzip2 1.0.5-1high-quality block-sorting file co ii gconf22.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii gzip 1.3.12-6 The GNU compression utility ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgconf2-4 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome2-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomeui-0 2.20.1.1-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-01:2.22.0-5 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.11-4 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libnautilus-extension12.20.0-7 libraries for nautilus components ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.5-3 Layout and rendering of internatio ii tar 1.20-1 GNU version of the tar archiving u ii unzip 5.52-12De-archiver for .zip files ii zip 2.32-1 Archiver for .zip files Versions of packages file-roller recommends: ii arj3.10.22-6 archiver for .arj files ii cpio 2.9-13GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii genisoimage9:1.1.9-1 Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem ii gnome-icon-theme 2.22.0-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in pn lzop none(no description available) pn ncompress none(no description available) ii p7zip 4.58~dfsg.1-1 7zr file archiver with high compre pn rpmnone(no description available) pn sharutils none(no description available) pn unace none(no description available) Versions of packages file-roller suggests: pn lha none (no description available) pn unrar none (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#515175: file-roller: Can't open .deb by default (aka should recommend binutils)
Hi Folks, I filed the following bug (515175), which raises 2 questions: In Bug 515175, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: Package: file-roller Version: 2.22.4-2 Severity: normal On a default gnome-desktop system (Lenny), .deb files (application/x-deb) are associated with file-roller, but it can't open it. Please recommend or depend on the package binutils (which provides /bin/ar). 1. Should file-roller (and similar programs) use /bin/ar or dpkg-deb to extract the contents of archives? If it should use /bin/ar, then wouldn't it be sensible to move ar to another package than binutils, so we don't need to install on all gnome dsktops? On the other hand, if (Gnome) file-roller were to use dpkg-deb, it would be probably be broken on rpm based distributions. 2. Wouldn't it be more sensible to have .deb files associated to a user friendly package information viewer, like gdeb or gdebi? Franklin P.S. Obviously, this is a post-lenny discussion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
