scribus-doc package installs files as belonging to root

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Dienstag, dem 12.03.2024 um 18:37 +0000 schrieb Ian Bruntlett:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> * SPOILER * It might be a snap configuration issue - snap experts,
> please see the end of this message...

right, the issue is that scribus does not use a standard location for
its docs ... typically deb packages ship their docs in
/usr/share/doc/<packagename> while scribus ships them in
/usr/share/<packagename>/doc ... 

firefox uses (and auto-connects) the "system-packages-doc" interface
that allows it read access to everything under /usr/share/doc

https://snapcraft.io/docs/the-system-package-doc-interface

you could file a bug against firefox to ask for an additional interface
for this but i'm not sure if anyone would want to take the effort for
maintianing a whole interface just for one package behaving in a non-
standard way ... 

alternatively you could file a bug against scribus to ask that these
files get moved to the standard documentation location ... 

and third you could create a systemd mount unit (or fstab entry) to
establish a bind-mount of the contents from /usr/share/scribus/doc into
/usr/share/doc/scribus, that would work around the restriction...

ciao
	oli

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