[Pkg-squeak-devel] Bug#595787: squeak-vm: non-standard "squeak" script breaks existing applications

[Sascha Silbe]

Package: squeak-vm
Version: 1:4.0.3.2202-2
Severity: important


The squeak-vm package ships with a single executable in PATH,
/usr/bin/squeak. This script is completely different from the upstream
squeak script and breaks existing applications, e.g. the Etoys Sugar
activity:

=== Begin ===
squeak -encoding UTF-8 -vm-display-x11 -xshm -sugarBundleId org.vpri.EtoysActivity -sugarActivityId 79c094fe2dfe03117da48525b3193432bc970507 /home/sascha.silbe/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/etoys/etoys.image  BUNDLE_PATH /home/sascha.silbe/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Etoys.activity SQUEAKLETS /home/sascha.silbe/.sugar/default/org.vpri.EtoysActivity/instance BUNDLE_ID org.vpri.EtoysActivity ACTIVITY_ID 79c094fe2dfe03117da48525b3193432bc970507
found gettext in path
/home/sascha.silbe/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Etoys.activity
Could not open the Squeak image file `-encoding'.
=== End ===

Because this script is the only executable in PATH, there's not even a
way to work around this (hence severity important).

Please install the upstream squeak script to allow applications using the
squeak VM to run. If you prefer to keep the existing script, how about
renaming it to "squeak-user", "squeak-easy", "squeak-simple" or
something like that?


[1] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Etoys

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages squeak-vm depends on:
ii  gettext-base                  0.18.1.1-1 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-2   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libuuid1                      2.17.2-3.1 Universally Unique ID library
ii  whiptail                      0.52.11-1  Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]   261-1      X terminal emulator

Versions of packages squeak-vm recommends:
ii  zenity                        2.30.0-1   Display graphical dialog boxes fro

Versions of packages squeak-vm suggests:
pn  squeak-image                  <none>     (no description available)
pn  squeak-plugin                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  squeak-sources                <none>     (no description available)

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