I took this fix line from line from Debian (see the bug report).
What the debian maintainer is doing is creating ~/.eagle which contains symlinks to all the "data" in /usr/share/eagle and contains a copy (not a symlink) of /usr/lib/eagle/bin/eagle. His original package included the symlinks, but he didn't include the executable. He updated the package on Oct 19 to include the fix we have here. I believe he does this because the binary (which is non-free and precompiled) expects to be run in the same folder as the data, but Debian policy doesn't let you put executable wrapper or bins inside /usr/share/ . This is my guess from detective work looking at the package. There are probably other ways of doing it (I packaged something for Debian where I place all the binaries in /usr/bin and then wrote a wrapper which just cd into /usr/share/<package name> and then called the binaries from there), but this seems valid. He's an experienced DD, and I believe policy pushed him in this direction. -- eagle crashes on: zoom into schematic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/475891 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
