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-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
