[kde-edu]: Packaging issues

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Diumenge 02 Novembre 2008, Harald Sitter va escriure:
> On Sunday 02 November 2008 16:08:04 Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote:
> > Hi people,
> >
> > I am submitting this to the mailing list as I cannot sort it out myself
> > and it regards kvtml and maybe other distributions as well.
> >
> > In KDE 4, we wanted to share more of the .kvtml files and thus we install
> > those .kvtml files in $KDEDIR/share/kvtml instead of
> > $KDEDIR/share/khangman or $KDEDIR/share/kanagram. Thus all programs using
> > KVTML format can use all the available files.
> >
> > But some distributions (debian based) then did not package KHangMan data
> > with KHangMan, they packaged it with KAnagram (as Kanagram data also
> > installs in $KDEDIR/share/kvtml). KHangMan crashes when there is no data
> > as it is designed to start with a word to guess.
> >
> > So I'd like to see here what should be done to ensure we have a minimum
> > set of data shipped with those apps. Every application should be shipped
> > with the data that is in the KDE svn application folder, thsi is how we
> > designed it. If it is not possible, should KHangMan be redesigned to
> > accomodate no data? Should we keep this /share/kvtml folder?
>
> In my opinion the minimum set of data should be deployed as part of the
> application, but as I understood it the kvtml files can be used by all
> applications supporting them, so essentially KAnagram can work with just
> it's own files but enhance the resources by using the ones from KHangMan,
> so having the files inside their applications directory doesn't make much
> sense.
>
> However, I think should be clear where these files belong to, so instead of
> throwing them just inside share/kvtml using subdirectories would be a good
> idea.
> i.e.:
> kvtml/khangman/...
> kvtml/kanagram/...
>
> That also makes it pretty self-explaining for distributions what to do with
> these files.
> In addition to that at least for debian based distributions (and IIRC it's
> the same for rpm based ones) it makes maintaining the package content
> easier. Currently one would have to maintain manually a list of files to
> ensure the ones belonging to KHangMan/KAnagram end up in the right package,
> while with subdirs one could just list kvtml/khangman/* goes in the
> khangman package and kvtml/kanagram/* in the kanagram package.
>
> To sum that up:
> * make the KVTML resources searched recursive (if not already)
> * install default kvtml files to subdirectories
> * as a result distributions can package the associated files more easily

That's a really bad excuse, we install all the icons, libs, desktop files, and 
lots of other files in the same folder (one for each categfory) and packagers 
never complainted about that.

Albert

>
> Regards,
> Harald