Bug#907607: scilab-cli doesn't start

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le 07/05/2019 à 23:08, Alexis Murzeau a écrit :

> Hi,
> 
> I found the "module not found." message inside the file funcmanager.cpp
> [0]. It does a verification which is a file existence check against the
> start file of the module [1].
> 
> I found that the modules giving errors don't have start files in Debian.
> For example,
> "/usr/share/scilab/modules/graphic_objects/etc/graphic_objects.start"
> doesn't exists in unstable but exists in stable.
> As this start file is empty, I think the cause of this is the line in
> debian/rules removing empty files [2] which was added in version 6.0.1-4
> [3].
> 
> I tried to run scilab-cli after having manually created empty .start and
> .stop files and the cli was working.
> 
> So I think the line 62 in debian/rules [2] need to be reverted.
> 
Bravo for catching this.
Could you please propose a merge request on salsa?
I will upload it after and ask for a migration exception.

@Clement, you should probably fix that upstream too.

Thanks
Sylvestre