[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#478710: Need advice

[Bill Allombert]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 04:45:57PM +0200, أحمد المحمودي wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   Thanks Bill.
> 
> 
>   The only reason that we need pcb-common to Depend on
>   pcb-gtk | pcb-lesstif
>   
>   is because there's an upstream desktop entry 
>   /usr/share/applications/pcb.desktop installed in pcb-common, this 
>   desktop entry executes the binary 'pcb' which will only exist if either 
>   pcb-gtk or pcb-lesstif is installed.

Hello Ahmed,

Thanks for looking at this.  I see two ways around this problem.
First you can add 
TryExec=pcb
to the .desktop file, so the desktop entry is only valid when a pcb binary
is available (see the XDG draft).

Instead, you could move the desktop file to the pcb package. Since it depends
on pcb-gtk | pcb-lesstif, the pcb binary will always be available.

>   So, is it ok to remove this "pcb-gtk | pcb-lesstif" dependancy in this 
>   case ? That would mean that a user could install pcb-common, yet 
>   without installing any of pcb-gtk nor pcb-lesstif, so he will have a 
>   desktop entry without having the binary that should be executed by 
>   this desktop entry.

I agree that this should be avoided if this create broken menu entries.

Cheers,
Bill.