[Reportbug-maint] Bug#543147: Bug#543147: reportbug: desktop file presence should equal working installation

[Sandro Tosi]

Hi Philipp,
thanks for your report.

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 22:29, Philipp Kern<pkern at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: reportbug
> Version: 4.6
> Severity: normal
>
> reportbug drops a desktop file into a directory which is automatically
> picked up by DEs and thus makes the impression to be installed.  However,
> when one tries to invoke it through said desktop file it wants python-vte
> to be installed first.

Yeah, this is a known problem because of:

- the GTK+ front-end is optional, since it introduces a lot of depends
not needed for only "textual" reportbug;
- at install time we cannot know if the GTK+ frontend (the one called
from the icon in menu) will work, because its depends are in Suggests,
and because at time t1 reportbug can be installed, and at t2 (> t1)
the GTK+ frontend dependencies can be installed, so that the frontend
will work after "some time";
- we install the icon and fallback to text reportbug if python-gtk2 is
missing, or prompt a popup if python-vte is missing.

>  I think the presence of the icon should equal
> a working installation.

What we are considering to do is require both python-gtk2 and
python-vte to be installed at the same time for the whole GTK+
frontend to work, else fallback to textual reportbug.

Regards,
-- 
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