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

[أحمد]

Hello,

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 04:45:17PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 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.
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  Actually pcb binary does not have to be available (a user can just 
  install pcb-gtk or pcb-lesstif directly), so I think I'll go with 
  patching the upstream .desktop file as per the first solution you 
  suggested.

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