[Bug 387778] Re: Incorrect application entry for bacula-console-qt

[Kern Sibbald]

On Tuesday 16 June 2009 20:17:49 Brian Murray wrote:
> Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and including a patch.
> However, the .desktop file is generated when building the source package
> so your patch, while it fixes the resulting .desktop file, won't apply
> to the package.  I'm not quite certain how to fix this myself, but I
> believe you can investigate the problem further by using 'apt-get source
> bacula' and then looking at 'scripts/bat.desktop.in' in the package.

A few responses:

First some gripes about this bug tracking system:

1. Your bug emails generated by your system apparently don't take into account 
that there may be more one place we get bug emails.  I recommend that you add 
something like "Launchpad.bacula" or something like that to the Subject line 
as all other bug systems do.

2. Bug reports should never be directly addressed to people receiving them in 
a copy form -- as is the case for me.  It is very confusing.  This emails was 
addressed to me as:

From: Brian Murray <brian at ubuntu.com>
    To: kern at sibbald.com
 Date: Today 20:17:49

which is incorrect since the bug report is copied to me.

3. I would like to unsubscribe from this list, but it seems to be next to 
impossible.  Would you please tell me how?  Thanks.

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Now to answer the bug report.

4. The problem appears to be that the packaging of Bacula was incorrectly 
done.  Bacula should be configured and built prior to packaging, and the 
configuration *must* correspond to the exact same places the packager is 
going to install files.  Otherwise you introduce packing bugs as you have 
here.

More specifically.  It appears that the packager configured and built Bacula 
to install in /usr/sbin/bat (or at least that is where Bat was set to be 
installed), and then during the installation of the Bacula package, bat (the 
executable) was put into /usr/bin/bat.  Thus the desktop files are not in 
synchronization with where the binary was installed.

Regards,

Kern
Upstream Bacula Project Manager

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Incorrect application entry for bacula-console-qt
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