On April 6, 2004 01:18 pm, Dominique Devriese wrote: > The upstream authors should do something similar ( and make sure they > have a recent admin/ dir, so that xdg_appsdir is defined, of course ).
OK, I'll look into that. > > Thus a small mention in Packaging.txt might help to nudge packagers > > (especially new packagers) towards the correct location, in case > > their sources still default to applnk, for whatever reason. > > Agreed, care to write the patch, perhaps ? Sure, just give me a day or two. When's the next upload coming, BTW? Did they release 3.2.2 to packagers last weekend as planned? > > Perhaps also the /u/s/doc/kdelibs4-dev/dh-make/debiandirs should add > > the following: > > export kde_appsdir=/usr/share/applications/kde > > No, this would be wrong. > > > The only problem with this is that apps that had hitherto created a > > subdirectory in /u/s/applnk (like Multimedia, or Graphics) would now > > do the same in /u/s/applications/kde... > > Indeed. I think I'm starting to understand. applnk --> applications/kde is more than just a minor change in location, it's about adopting the freedesktop.org standard. Hence my ealier proposed change would indeed be inappropriate. > Well, I agree with you that either debianrules should be installed > instead of debiandirs, or Packaging.txt should be adapted. I'm not > certain what calc wanted to do, but installing debianrules instead of > debiandirs seems like the best solution to me personally. Anyway, > calc, please shed some light on this ! I'm always in favour of simplicity, but if there's some subtle reason to use debianrules + perl instead of debiandirs directly that I'm not aware of, then I'd conform to that. Cheers, Christopher Martin
