[Pkg-pascal-devel] Lazarus help style file

[Paul Gevers]

Hi all

(I will mail you with an other question soon).

On 02-11-15 09:45, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> Using Lazarus 1.4, each time the mouse hovers an identifier a dialog box
> complaining about missing lazdoc.css file will prompt. This leads to
> very uncomfortable use of the IDE.
> 
> The IDE looks for that file in /lib/lazarus/${version}/docs, while the
> normal place of that file is /usr/share/doc/lazarus/${version}. However
> this will need patching and could be not very easy.
> 
> On the other hand, the direcotry /usr/lib/lazarus/${version} already
> exist and contains text files
> 
> $ls /usr/lib/lazarus/1.4.0/docs
> 
> acknowledgements.txt  Contributors.txt  contributors.utf8

I think we should move the contents of those files to
/usr/share/doc/lazarus(|-ide) and replace these files with a softlink.

I haven't looked at the examples, but I guess the same goes for them,
examples in general should be in /usr/share/doc/<name>/examples/

> $dpkg -S /usr/lib/lazarus/1.4.0/docs
> 
> lazarus-ide-1.4.0: /usr/lib/lazarus/1.4.0/docs
> 
> 
> I'd propose to add this file to lazarus-ide-${version} despite it is
> arch independent as many other files of this package. What do you think?

How about adding a soft link in the location where lazarus expects the
file and put the file in a proper location?

I also think we already split up enough of fpc and lazarus, so unless it
really saves space (lintian would have told us) let's not introduce more
packages to fix this.

Paul

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