[Pkg-pascal-devel] Lazarus help style file

[Abou Al Montacir]

On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 10:32 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> 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
> > 
> > $ls /usr/lib/lazarus/1.4.0/docs
> > 
> > acknowledgements.txt  Contributors.txt  contributors.utf8
> 
> I think we should move the contents of those files to
> /usr/share/doc/lazarus(|-ide) and replace these files with a softlink.
I agree that this file's natural place is in /usr/share/doc/lazarus. However it
shall e in the package lazarus-ide-${version} as it is needed even if the docs
are not installed.
> 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/
> 

That makes more sense as these are many files. Especially we did the job for FPC
already.
> > 
> > $dpkg -S /usr/lib/lazarus/1.4.0/docs
> > 
> > lazarus-ide-1.4.0: /usr/lib/lazarus/1.4.0/docs
> > 
> > 
> > I'd propose to add this file to lazarus-ide-${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?
> 

 Soft link is fine with me, but the file itself is 2kB so not a big deal, does
it really hurt to let it there.
Then later we can move all the files on doc to /usr/share and make
/usr/lib/lazarus/${version}/docs a symlink to a location in
/usr/share/lzarus/${version}
> 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.
I agree too.
-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir
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