Points taken.
I reopened the bug and will remove that warning.

However, since Debian is currently frozen, I won't be able to upload a
new package just yet, I think.

2017-02-21 20:32 GMT+00:00 Mantas Baltix <[email protected]>:
> Please don't close this bugreport - current implementation is really bad way
> on multi-user systems and no other nautilus extensions (except dead 6-years
> old nautilus-compare) uses this approach.
> When I install nautilus-admin package on multi-user system (where reboots
> are very rare), then *all users* gets this misleading warning *at first
> login* after installation:
> "The file manager must be restarted in order to start the Nautilus Admin
> extension."
> Users shouldn't see such dialog at login, because nautilus-admin extension
> works fine right after login (there was no nautilus process for that user at
> installation time), so, no need to restart nautilus!
>
> Bruno Nova <[email protected]> wrote:
>> dialog asking to restart the file manager is there to do that, so
>> that average users are not confused when the extension doesn't
>> work after being installed.
>
> Average users doesn't have administration rights and doesn't have ability to
> install deb packages :)
> This dialog should be displayed *only for user, who install this package*,
> not for every user in operating system.
>
> User's should not be disturbed about installed nautilus extensions,
> *this info is useful only for system administrator* - only for 1 user, who
> installs this package, so, please use debconf in debian/postinst or put this
> info in package's description or /usr/share/doc/nautilus-admin/README.Debian
>
> Prompting "every" user instead of system administrator violates Debian
> policy, see
> www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-maintscriptprompt
>
> Prompting must be done by *communicating through a program, such as
> *debconf*, which conforms to the Debian Configuration Management
>  Specification, version 2 or higher.
>
> Thanks for maintaining such useful extension,
> Mantas,
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