Re: Glom for Ubuntu Intrepid

[Iain Lane <laney ubuntu com>]

On 5 Jan 2009, at 15:50, Murray Cumming wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 18:05 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 19:09 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > > > I notice that Iain Lane has some here:
> > > > https://code.launchpad.net/~laney/+archive
> > > >
> > > > However, the "template" examples are not listed in the intial  
> > > > dialog.
> > > > Iain, are you aware of this problems?
> > >
> > > Iain, thanks for updating your package, but that problem still  
> > > exists.
> >
> > Again, thanks for updating the package. I am now using your email
> > address from the debian/changelog, in case you are not receiving  
> > email
> > at the other address.
> >
> > Investigating this problem with the template/example files, I see  
> > that
> > you have put the examples in /usr/share/doc/glom/examples/ though  
> > Glom
> > expects to find them in /usr/share/glom/examples/, as defined in the
> > glom/Makefile.am file:
> > glom_examples_dir = $(pkgdatadir)/doc/examples/
> >
> > I can't see how your package changes the install location for these
> > files. It doesn't seem to be a configure argument. Can you give me a
> > clue so I can adapt the source code?
>
> Iain, you mentioned on irc that you solved this problem, but I'm still
> experiencing it with your Glom 1.8.4 on Intrepid. Are you sure?


I'm not sure if I pushed the fixed version to my PPA, as I was  
preparing for a real upload. I'll make sure to fix it on the PPA  
tonight. Sorry for not receiving these mails before! I only found out  
about the issue from reading the changelog on SVN, whoops.

For completeness, there was a rogue line in the rule file to build  
the .deb which read something like `rm -r /path/to/examples'. I don't  
know why the original packager put it there (FHS/Debian policy  
compliance maybe? On Debian examples are supposed to be installed in / 
usr/share/doc/package/examples, but they generally aren't directly  
referenced by the program. Perhaps calling these "templates" would be  
better?), but I removed it and now they appear.

Thanks,
Iain


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