Bug#391672: quanta: Recommonds non-free and transitional phpdoc
Package: quanta
Version: 4:3.5.4-1
Severity: serious
Hi,
I was cleaning out my system today and noticed that quanta recommends
phpdoc, which is a transitional package. Presumably this should be
changed to php-doc instead.
However: I then noticed that php-doc is in non-free, which is more of a
problem (and which is why I've marked this serious) -- policy states that
packages in main cannot recommend or depend on contrib/non-free packages.
I'm not sure what the correct solution is here; it's been some time
since I was working with quanta. IIRC, in the days when I looked after
it the recommends was to keep the documentation pane behaving itself.
What happens is that quanta ships with php.docrc, which provides the
index; thus the documentation pane gives you a full table of contents
that you can navigate around, whether the real docs are actually installed
or not.
I guess the easiest solution is downgrade this to a suggests, and leave
a note somewhere for the user to read explaining how to fix the "file
not found" errors in the documentation pane (solution: install php-doc).
Hmm. Actually -- having looked at this now, you get file not found even
if php-doc _is_ installed. This is because the
/usr/share/apps/quanta/doc/php symlink is broken (it points into the
old /usr/share/doc/phpdoc instead of the new /usr/share/doc/php-doc).
Thus even if the user does have php-doc installed, the documentation pane
will refuse to show it to them.
So.. apologies for the stream of consciousness here (and for what has
turned out to be two bug reports in one); I'm kind of rushed ATM. My
suggested solution is:
1. Change "Recommends: phpdoc" to "Suggests: php-doc" (note that both
the relationship and the package name have changed);
2. Add a note to README.Debian explaining what to do if you get
file-not-found errors in your documentation pane (solution is to
install the relevant doc package);
3. Fix the /usr/share/apps/quanta/doc/php symlink to point to
/usr/share/doc/php-doc/html instead of /usr/share/doc/phpdoc/html .
Step (1) will be enough to fix the RC element of this bug, but steps
(2) and (3) are easily done at the same time.
Thanks - Ben.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages quanta depends on:
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.4-3 core libraries and binaries for al
ii kfilereplace 4:3.5.4-1 batch search-and-replace component
ii klinkstatus 4:3.5.4-1 web link validity checker for KDE
ii kommander 4:3.5.4-1 visual dialog builder and executor
ii libacl1 2.2.41-1 Access control list shared library
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libattr1 2.4.32-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii libaudio2 1.8-2 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcvsservice0 4:3.5.4-1 DCOP service for accessing CVS rep
ii libfam0 2.7.0-10 Client library to control the FAM
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.0-5 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-13 GCC support library
ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 0.6.5-1 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpcre3 6.4-2 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.2 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.6-4 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-9 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.7-4 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.26.dfsg-3 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-4 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.17-4 XSLT processing library - runtime
ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii quanta-data 4:3.5.4-1 data files for Quanta Plus web dev
ii tidy 20051018-1 HTML syntax checker and reformatte
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages quanta recommends:
ii cervisia 4:3.5.4-1 a graphical CVS front end for KDE
ii docbook-defguide 2.0.8-2 DocBook: The Definitive Guide - HT
ii gnupg 1.4.5-1 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii kompare 4:3.5.4-1 a KDE GUI for viewing differences
ii kxsldbg 4:3.5.4-1 graphical XSLT debugger for KDE
ii phpdoc 20060408-1 Transition package for PHP4 and PH
ii wdg-html-reference 4.0-2 WDGs HTML 3.2, HTML 4, and CSS ref
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