[Shotwell] Ubuntu packaging bug 0.3.2, /usr/usr/share/applications

[Jim Nelson]

I just realized -- yes, this was reported awhile back.  It's been fixed in
0.4.0, which we hope to release this week.

Thanks,

-- Jim

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Nate Homier <
shotwell at universal-mechanism.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 00:47 -0700, Nate Homier wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 19:25 -0800, Jim Nelson wrote:
> > >         The Ubuntu PPA by Yorba has a packaging bug.
> > >         /usr/usr/share/applications
> > >         Version 0.3.2 from the PPA.
> > >
> > > I looked through our install process and can't see how this would
> > > happen.  Can you be more specific, that is, what error message you're
> > > seeing, and when/where you're seeing it?
> > >
> > >         It would be nice if the PPA had nightly snapshots.  I don't
> > >         build from
> > >         src anymore.
> > >
> > > That's a good idea -- I've ticketed it:
> > > http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1220
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > -- Jim
> >
> > I only discovered it by accident and so I used "dpkg -S" to see what
> > owned the stray directories.  Shotwell was returned as the answer.  I
> > use Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit.
> >
> > I retrieved the deb from "/var/cache/apt/archives" and extracted the
> > deb.  I get "/home/nate/Downloads/shotwell_0.3.2-1~karmic1_amd64/usr".
> > $ls
> > "bin share usr"
> > Looks to me a stray extra empty usr dir.
> >
> > Exact PPA
> > https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa<https://launchpad.net/%7Eyorba/+archive/ppa>
> > I used this method to add the repository.
> > ppa:yorba/ppa
> >
> > Exact command and answer.
> > nate at universal-mechanism:~$ dpkg -S /usr/usr
> > shotwell: /usr/usr
> >
> > Nate
>
> Just to add more info.
> The PPA build log clearly shows /usr/usr.
>
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35553788/buildlog_ubuntu-karmic-amd64.shotwell_0.3.2-1~karmic1_FULLYBUILT.txt.gz<http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35553788/buildlog_ubuntu-karmic-amd64.shotwell_0.3.2-1%7Ekarmic1_FULLYBUILT.txt.gz>
> In Firefox Ctrl-f and search term /usr/usr.
> In the file "shotwell_0.3.2-1~karmic1.tar.gz" there is:
> "/home/nate/Downloads/shotwell-0.3.2/debian"
> And this contains the file dirs and this file contains /usr.
>
> Also in this "shotwell_0.3.2-1~karmic1.tar.gz" file, it contains the
> make file and in here on line 22 it looks suspicious:
> "mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/usr/share/applications".
>
> Nate
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