[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#465275: Bug#465275: Bug#465275: Gerbv 2.0.1 installs its OWN icon and .desktop file, fixes for packaging attached

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:08:04AM +0530, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote:
> Peter Clifton <pcjc2 at cam.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > Hi, I've attached a debdiff with some improvements to the packaging for
> > 2.0.1. This version now installs its own icons and .desktop file, so we
> > don't need to install them manually from debian/rules any more.
> >
> > (It uses /usr/share/icons/hicolor/.... to install various icons sizes,
> > so we also need a call do dh_icons to update the icon cache after
> > install / removal.)
> >
> > A final improvement, is that since extra-xdg-menus was approved for
> > Debian, we can "Depends" on that to get an "Electronics" menu. This
> > makes the unnecessary the inclusion of a bogus "Education" category, so
> > I've included a patch to remove that.
> 
> Thanks. I have applied your patch. WIll be uploaded in afew minutes.

Hi,

I think Depends is too strong for extra-xdg-menus, since it is not
really a dependency. Recommends is appropriate, and aptitude and apt-get
will install Recommends by default now.

Hamish
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