GPS plug-ins
The next upstream AUnit version (3.1.1) comes with a GPS plug-in file
'aunit.xml'.
It gives the path to the AUnit manual aunit.html.
The path is wrong for Debian; it's currently 'share/doc/aunit'; it needs
to be '/usr/share/doc/libaunit1-dev'. Actually, I'm not clear it needs
the leading '/usr'.
This plug-in file needs to be installed in the GPS plug-in directory
/usr/share/gps/plug-ins.
However, the GPS package already has a file 'aunit.xml' there, that is
wrong. It also has a 'gprbuild_gps.xml', which tries to point to
gprbuild documentation, and gets it wrong.
So I think we need a section in the Debian Ada policy on GPS plug-ins.
I propose that GPS _not_ own the plug-in files (except for those that
support stuff actually provided by GPS); the libaunit package should own
aunit.xml, gprbuild should own its xml file.
In addition, we might as well state explictly where the GPS plug-in
directory is, and that the plug-in document link should point to the
standard Debian documentation location.
One alternative would be to file bugs against GPS for the plug-in files;
I think it's cleaner to have the plug-ins install everything. That way
someone can build a new plug-in without requiring a new GPS upload.
Note that the document path contains the aliversion, so a new version of
an Ada package can require a new plug-in file.
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-- Stephe
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