Bug#764448: mate-applets 1.8.1+dfsg1-1 tries to overwrite files in gnome-applets 3.8.1-1

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Giacomo, hi Axel,

On  Do 09 Okt 2014 12:49:18 CEST, Giacomo Mulas wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Oct 2014, Mike Gabriel wrote:
>
>> Hi Giacomo,
>
> Hi Mike
>
>> Thanks for reporting this. This needs to be fixed upstream+downstream.
>>
>> What are the files that trouble you (and us all)? (Asking, because  
>> I can't check right now, because I am at a customer).
>
> Manpages.
>
> I had a look at the contents of the package, apparently everything else has
> a unique (full) filename, meaning that at least some part of the path is
> unique, even if the final filename duplicates something in gnome, so this is
> ok.
>
> Instead, most manpages in man1 in the package have exactly the same name as
> their gnome counterparts, so these should be changed/fixed. E.g.   
> cdplayer_applet.1.gz, charpick_applet.1.gz, cpufreq-selector.1.gz,
> drivemount_applet.1.gz, geyes_applet.1.gz, gkb_applet.1.gz, ...
> Perhaps they should all be prefixed with "mate-" or suffixed with "-mate" or
> something similar to make their names unique.
>
> This should be relatively painless, apart from having to do some script-fu
> to rename the manpages before building the deb binary package... Could be
> done by awk probably, or even with some pipeing of commands like
> cd $INSTALL/usr/share/man/man1 ; for i in `ls *.1.gz` ; mv $i mate-$i ; done
> or something along these lines.
>
> Cheers
> Giacomo

I removed the man pages again from the bin:package... for now... I  
have pinged upstream to get this fixed [1].

Mike

[1] https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-applets/issues/103

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