[Pkg-geany-team] Bug#728192: geany-plugins: Plugins are not available via plugin-manager

[Oz Nahum Tiram]

Package: geany-plugins
Version: 1.23+dfsg-3
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I installed geany-plugins and I did not see geany-pluginvc in the
plugin manger.
Hence I download the upstream package and installed it.

I noticed that upstream installed the plugins to:

  /usr/local/lib/geany/geanyvc.so

Whereas the debian package installed the file to

  /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/geany/geanyvc.so

I remove the upstream package and created a link :

sudo ln -vs  /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/geany/geanyvc.so
/usr/local/lib/geany/geanyvc.so

This made the vs plugin available.

So this issue can be relatively easily solved by:

  * Change the installed file path to the one expected by geany.
    Probably violates Debian's policy.
  * Reconfigure geany to search for the plugin in Debian's path.
  * Create a link as part of the installation of the package,
    remove the link if the package is removed.

Best Regards,

Oz


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages geany-plugins depends on:
ii  geany-plugin-addons             1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-codenav            1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-debugger           1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-devhelp            1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-doc                1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-extrasel           1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-gendoc             1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-geniuspaste        1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-gproject           1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-insertnum          1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-latex              1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-lipsum             1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-lua                1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-macro              1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-miniscript         1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-multiterm          1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-numberedbookmarks  1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-pg                 1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-prettyprinter      1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-prj                1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-latex              1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-lipsum             1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-lua                1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-macro              1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-miniscript         1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-multiterm          1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-numberedbookmarks  1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-pg                 1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-prettyprinter      1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-prj                1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-sendmail           1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-shiftcolumn        1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-spellcheck         1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-tableconvert       1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-treebrowser        1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-updatechecker      1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-vc                 1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-webhelper          1.23+dfsg-3
ii  geany-plugin-xmlsnippets        1.23+dfsg-3

geany-plugins recommends no packages.

geany-plugins suggests no packages.

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