[Pkg-pascal-devel] Lazarus IDE translation files.

[Paul Gevers]

Hi

On 14-07-14 23:12, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> I have tried a quick build for recently pushed Lazarus 1.2.4 and noticed
> the following warnings:
> dh_install: usr/lib/lazarus/1.2.4/languages/lazaruside.*.po exists in
> debian/tmp but is not installed to anywhere

Interesting. I also did a quick build, but didn't get this warning. You
forgot to regenerate the control file, and that may be the source of the
problem. In my case these files were put into
lazarus-ide-1.2.4_1.2.4+dfsg-1_amd64.deb.

> The issue with this is that we ship 2 IDE versions Qt and GTK. So the
> natural way to go is to create a lazarus-ide-common and ship them inside
> while making both packages depends on this arch-all new packages.
> 
> However this adds a new package and probably we won't do this. That's
> why I'd propose to put them in the meta package lazarus-ide which
> becomes then no more a meta-package but a real one. Then
> lazarus-ide-gtk2 and lazaarus-ide-qt4 will both depend on it while it
> depends on one of them.

This is the current situation, if I am right. However, now you mention
it we have a circular dependency by doing this and if I remember well,
that is either not allowed, or at least discouraged. I will try to find
the document where I saw this.

> Also it may make sense to create a lazarus-i18n or lazarus-i18n-*
> packages, but I feel this will not please many users.
> 
> Does someone have any better idea, other than symbolic links cross
> packages?

For now, just stick with the current location. But I think the
discussion also triggers me to fix something else. There are a lot of
files in the current packaging which violate the FHS, i.e. arch
independent files in /usr/lib/ instead of /usr/share/. Lintian [1]
already warns about 334 images alone, and that is far from complete. Any
idea how to solve this without a huge amount of symlinks?

Paul

[1] http://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/claviola@debian.org.html#lazarus

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