gnome-desktop bump

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 11:34 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 22:00 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 13:55 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm going to build gnome-desktop 2.29.5 in rawhide, which bumps
> the
> > > soname of libgnome-desktop-2.so. Affected packages are:
> > 
> > > eel2
> > 
> > I asked on IRC for someone to rebuild this. Warren told me it's been
> > blocked, apparently by Tbzatek. However, it has live dependencies.
> > nautilus-python requires eel2, and tortoisehg-nautilus , postr and
> > nautilus-phatch all depend on nautilus-python. Please, either make
> > nautilus-python not require eel2 somehow, make all nautilus-python's
> > dependencies not require nautilus-python any more and block that
> too, or
> > restore eel2. Thanks.

> The current upstream version of nautilus-python, 0.6.1, doesn't depend
> on the dead eel. Unfortunately, nautilus-python seems 'weakly
> maintained' in Fedora, the last non-mass rebuild dating from Dec 2008.

So, an update: Toshio and I found the new nautilus-python too, and
indeed it builds perfectly happily without eel.

It doesn't appear to actually _work_, though. The app I actually use -
postr - claims to do nautilus integration via a Python nautilus
extension. I can rebuild postr as well and it'll 'build' (it's
Python...) its extension and install it in the right place, but it
doesn't actually work. It's supposed to provide a right-click menu entry
in nautilus when you click on an image file, to let you open it in postr
(and hence send it to flickr). The menu entry never shows up. This works
in F11 (can't test F12, don't have an F12 system handy).

We can of course take the cowardly^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpragmatic approach and
just send a bump of nautilus-python anyway; it builds fine (the patch
needs a trivial tweak) and would at least resolve the dependency issues.
Making it actually work could be, ahem...properly prioritized. :)
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