FS#13290 - qtiplot wrong location for package files

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Ugo Tartaglino (ugo) - Sunday, 15 February 2009, 13:40 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 22 March 2009, 11:03 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
The latest version of qtiplot shows two evident problems:

1) While running qtiplot, a message box appears with this message
QtiPlot - Warning
Couldn't load file: /usr/bin/qti_wordlist.txt.
Autocompletion will not be available!
The file exists in the package and it is /usr/share/qtiplot/qti_wordlist.txt
A symbolic link from the real location of the file to /usr/bin solves the problem (at least it makes message box disappear).

2) While looking fro the help in the menu, the following message box appears:
QtiPlot - Help Files Not Found!
Please indicate the location of the help file!
The manual can be downloaded from the following internet address:
http://soft.proindependent.com/manuals.html
By clicking on "Ok", an open dialog box appear, inviting to select the help file.
I downloaded the manual, saved it somewhere, and configured qtiplot accordingly. Everything is fine.
Is it by purpose? So that people decide which manual download (english or spanish)? Wouldn't be better to include the manual(s) in another package, as an optional dependency of qtiplot.
Looking at the files in the manual, I deduce that they should be in /usr/share/doc/qtiplot/manual/html/, where qtiplot is looking at while selecting Help->"Choose Help Folder..."


Additional info:
* package version(s)
qtiplot 0.9.7.4-2, corresponding to the latest version in the homepage of qtiplot.

$ pacman -Qi qtiplot
Name : qtiplot
Version : 0.9.7.4-2
URL : http://soft.proindependent.com/qtiplot.html
Licenses : GPL2
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : muparser>=1.30 gsl python>=2.6 pyqt sip boost>=1.36
libgl qwt
Optional Deps : None
Required By : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 13044.00 K
Packager : Ronald van Haren <ronald.archlinux.org>
Architecture : i686
Build Date : Tue 03 Feb 2009 06:52:11 PM CET
Install Date : Thu 12 Feb 2009 06:45:49 PM CET
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Description : Data analysis and scientific plotting - free clone of Origin


Steps to reproduce:
Just type qtiplot in a shell. Then Choose "Help" from the menu.
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Sunday, 22 March 2009, 11:03 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  qtiplot-0.9.7.4-2
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 22 March 2009, 09:47 GMT
I get the wanted file location as /usr/local/qtiplot/qti_wordlist.txt
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 22 March 2009, 11:03 GMT
I have fixed the qti_wordlist.txt file location error. However, I will leave the package manual-less. the help message is very clear about what needs to be done to add one.

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