Bug#724757: RFS: dxsamples/4.2.0-2 [ITA] -- Sample programs for the OpenDX Data Explorer

On 11 October 2013 19:47, Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> wrote:

Anyway, why does dx need/use the symlink
if it can, apparently, function well without the data.

If dx-doc and dxsamples are not installed, dx still functions, except that the online help and samples are not available.

My reasoning was that if either dx-doc or dxsamples were installed on their own, without dx, there would be no change in their functionality whether the symlinks were present or not. The help and samples functions in dx, however, would not work if the symlinks were missing.

Yes, but apart from thinking about how you would like it to be, you are
here also changing the way it used to be. This always has additional
risks, so usually, I would only do it if it would bring real benefits.
We already saw the potential risk when it was forgotten to declare the
proper replaces/breaks.

I had a close look at the locations of files in the dx package and found that most of the directories installed in /usr/lib/dx actually belonged in /usr/share/dx. Unfortunately I found no easy way to separate binaries and arch-independent files in dx's build system, so I tried building with prefix=/usr/share instead of prefix=/usr/lib and was pleased by the results.

No symlinks were required for dx to locate its samples and the image-file-in-usr-lib Lintian warnings were silenced because /usr/lib/dx/ui was now at /usr/share/dx/ui. I hope these benefits outweigh the risks of changing the prefix.

I already did a long time ago :) http://bugs.debian.org/683059 Maybe YOU
want to add a note about Suggests.

Thanks, I will follow up in that bug.

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