Package: gvfs-fuse Version: 1.38.1-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
Basically this regards the transition from fuse to fuse3, my primary motivation being to make the (Debian) world safe for a modern sshfs (3.5+). As others have pointed out (g.e. Bug #918984), trying to replace fuse with fuse3 would require removal of gnome-core and task-gnome-desktop. On my Sid system, at least, it all comes down to the dependency of gvfs-fuse on fuse (>= 2.8.4). The fuse3 package provides "fuse", but apparently that doesn't satisfy the version-specific dependency. Note that there's no problem (on my system) co-installing libfuse2 and libfuse3-3. So a gvfs-fuse dependency on libfuse2 should not be a problem. Is the current dependency of gvfs-fuse on fuse (>=2.8.4) really necessary? Would a dep on simply 'fuse' suffice? Or dep on libfuse2? I'm currently working around this issue by removing gvfs-fuse, gnome-core, and task-gnome-desktop, but manually keeping many of the otherwise-unused dependencies. I wouldn't want to try to keep this up long-term. I agree this sounds more like a wishlist than important issue. But the transition to fuse3 and sshfs 3+ seems to have hit a logjam, and I'm just trying to help move things along. Hence the 'important' severity level. It would be great if we could have sshfs 3.5.1+ in Buster, or if not, at least in Sid soon. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages gvfs-fuse depends on: ii fuse3 [fuse] 3.4.1-1 ii gvfs 1.38.1-3 ii libc6 2.28-8 ii libfuse2 2.9.9-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.3-1 gvfs-fuse recommends no packages. gvfs-fuse suggests no packages. Note: The info about about fuse3 [fuse] 3.4.1-1 is misleading. gvfs-fuse is not installable with fuse3 installed.
