Bug#507630: nautilus: Is gnome-volume-manager obsolete with nautils 2.24.x?

[Michael Biebl]

Package: nautilus
Version: 2.24.1-1
Severity: important

Hi Joss,

as it it seems, nautilus >= 2.24 and gnome-volume-manager overlap in
functionality, as they both provide automounting of volumes.
If I go to Edit->Preferences->Media in nautilus, there is a
configuration tab for media handling (although here everything is greyed
out, which is probably a bug on its own).

I noticed, that gnome-volume-manager >= 2.24 has a configure flag
--disable-automount.

Should the pkg-utopia team upload such a g-v-m package with automounting
disabled and nautilus add a conflicts with g-v-m < 2.24.0?

How shall we proceed from here, to ensure a smooth upgrade?

Should we let die g-v-m completely, is nautilus a 100% substitute?

Cheers,
Michael

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.7
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  desktop-file-utils      0.15-1           Utilities for .desktop files
ii  gnome-control-center    1:2.22.2.1-2     utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gvfs                    1.0.2-2          userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.22.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbeagle1              0.3.5-2          library for accessing beagle using
ii  libbonobo2-0            2.22.0-1         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                   2.7-16           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2               1.6.4-6.1        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libeel2-2.24            2.24.1-1         Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
ii  libexempi3              2.0.2-2          library to parse XMP metadata (Lib
ii  libexif12               0.6.16-2.1       library to parse EXIF files
ii  libgail-common          1.22.3-1         GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail18               1.22.3-1         GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4             2.22.0-1         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0             1:2.6.3-1        library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.18.3-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2      2.22.3-2         Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0             2.20.1.1-2       The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0       2.20.1.1-1       A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0            2.20.1.1-2       The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.14.5-1         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnautilus-extension1  2.24.1-1         libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2               1:2.14.16-0.1    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.20.5-3         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-2              2.22.2-3         SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1             2.0.65-5         SELinux shared libraries
ii  libstartup-notification 0.9-1            library for program launch feedbac
ii  libtrackerclient0       0.6.90~svn2639-1 metadata database, indexer and sea
ii  libx11-6                2:1.1.5-2        X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                 2.6.32.dfsg-5    GNOME XML library
ii  nautilus-data           2.24.1-1         data files for nautilus
ii  shared-mime-info        0.30-2           FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa

Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
pn  app-install-data            <none>       (no description available)
ii  desktop-base                5.0.2        common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  eject                       2.1.5+deb1-4 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  gvfs-backends               1.0.2-2      userspace virtual filesystem - bac
ii  librsvg2-common             2.22.2-3     SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  nautilus-cd-burner          2.22.1-2     CD Burning front-end for Nautilus
ii  synaptic                    0.62.3       Graphical package manager
pn  xdg-user-dirs               <none>       (no description available)

Versions of packages nautilus suggests:
ii  acroread [pdf-viewer]   8.1.3-0.0        Adobe Acrobat Reader: Portable Doc
ii  eog                     2.22.3-2         Eye of GNOME graphics viewer progr
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]     2.22.2-4         Document (postscript, pdf) viewer
ii  kghostview [pdf-viewer] 4:3.5.9-3        PostScript viewer for KDE
ii  kpdf [pdf-viewer]       4:3.5.9-3        PDF viewer for KDE
ii  totem                   2.22.2-5         A simple media player for the GNOM
ii  tracker                 0.6.90~svn2639-1 metadata database, indexer and sea
ii  vlc [mp3-decoder]       0.8.6.h-5        multimedia player and streamer
ii  vlc-nox [mp3-decoder]   0.8.6.h-5        multimedia player and streamer (wi

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