[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Window Maker and GNUstep directory

Doug Torrance dtorrance at piedmont.edu
Mon Jan 15 13:42:26 UTC 2018


Hello!

Currently, the Debian Window Maker package installs WPrefs.app, its GUI 
configuration tool, in 
/usr/share/lib/GNUstep/System/Applications/WPrefs.app.  This directory 
includes both the binary itself and various arch-independent image files.

This seems completely incorrect -- both because of the "/usr/share/lib" 
combination and also because I can find no other packages in Debian 
which install anything to */GNUstep/System/*.

I have a couple questions:

* Is it even appropriate for WPrefs.app to be installed in the GNUstep 
directory in the first place, as it's not really a GNUstep application?  
(It's written using the WINGs library, which literally stands for "WINGs 
Is Not GNUstep.")

* If it is appropriate to install WPrefs.app into the GNUstep directory, 
then what would be the most appropriate path?  Based on other GNUstep 
packages, it seems like perhaps
     /usr/lib/GNUstep/Applications/WPrefs.app
for arch-dependent files and
     /usr/share/GNUstep/WPrefs.app
for arch-independent ones.  Is this correct?

(Please CC any replies to the pkg-wmaker-devel list.)

Thank you!
Doug



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