I believe this bug to be wrong. Currently at least in Debian sid, smarty expect plugins in /usr/share/php/smarty/libs/plugins and nowhere else. I don't know why you concluded something else (unless Ubuntu's smarty diverged on installation path which I doubt).
** Changed in: smarty-gettext (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- smarty-gettext installs plugins to the wrong location https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150461 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs