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--- Begin Message ---Subject: gnuplot-doc: incomplete setup of this package Package: gnuplot-doc Version: 5.0.4+dfsg1-3 Severity: important Note: This bug report equally applies to package `gnuplot5-doc'. Dear Maintainer, The package as installed by debian requires a sysadmin to perform multiple manual actions in order to make it reasonably useful to the average expected user of the software. In the case of gnuplot, we might argue whether an average user can be expected to be a young math student (child or young adult); this bug report will list deficiencies that even an adult average user would find gratuitous nuisances, and that every user would perform or want to perform in order to make the package usable / accessible. Thus, since these issues can be trivially addressed in the software packaging, they should. 1] Uncompress data files of the `demos' in the `examples' folder. 1.1] The demos won't work unless the data files are decompressed, a non-privileged user can't uncompress them in place, and the demos requires the data files to be in the same folder or in the loadpath, so the each unprivileged user on a multi-user system must manually identify, copy, and decompress data files of a demo to a ~ folder, and add that folder to the gnuplot loadpath. 1.2] The system-wide `examples' folder is full of compressed files that take no extra space when uncompressed, because even uncompressed they are less than a file's minimum allocation size. A few of the data files are negligibly larger. 1.3] In a large multi-user educational environment, this can be expected to lead to student tumult in the first year of use, followed by meetings between the teacher and the sysadmin, and sysadmin gripes about how to handle package updates if the files are changed in-place. 2] Uncompress the documentation files. 2.1] Some of the files in the htmldocs folder are distributed compressed, and are thus unusable without the same obstacles mentioned in #1 above. Also, as above, the files are small and the space allocation difference is zero or negligible. 2.2] The documentation files that are distributed in formats pdf, dvi, ps, and gih are also distributed compressed, and are thus unusable without the same obstacles mentioned in paragraph 1.3 above. 3] Add xfreedesktop menu files for the documentation 3.1] Since options for gnuplot usage include `gnuplot-x11' and `gnuplot-qt', the documentation should include xfreedesktop integration, because users in such environments expect everything to appear in a gui menu. At a minimum, this would mean creation of `.desktop' files in /usr/share/applications pointing to the files `gnuplot.pdf', `tutorial.pdf', `htmldocs/index.html', and `gpcard.ps'. 3.2] See paragraph 1.3, above. 4] Complete the local `webification' of the demos. This is something we/I haven't yet performed locally, as there was already enough to report in this bug report before I continue locally to get our install suitable for student use, but here's the problem and the expected solution. 4.1] The package includes a folder `examples/html' with a (compressed?) file named `index.save', which is a localized html page for all the gnuplot demos. GREAT! This would be so much more user-friendly than having students explore the demos blindly using a file manager. 4.2] None of the links on that page point to valid pages. 4.3] The same folder includes a perl script `webify.pl' which claims to create those pages. There is also a `Makefile' which claims to auto-generate an html demo set, with the confidence- deflating caveat "some of the demos need manual intervention". 4.4] See paragraphs 3.1 and 1.3, above. 5] Add correct path to `examples' folder in `gnuplotrc' file uncommented loadpath. This technically might be a bug against packages `gnuplot' and `gnuplot5', but only makes sense if this package (gnuplot-doc) is installed. 5.1] The file `gnuplotrc' should have its `set loadpath' line uncommented. 5.2] The loadpath should include sane defaults including an entry for the package version's demo folder. Maybe precede the entry with one for a sane folder in the user's home environment, eg. ~/gnuplot. 5.3] See paragraphs 3.1 and 1.3, above. -- System Information: Distributor ID: Devuan Description: Devuan GNU/Linux 1.0 (jessie) Release: 1.0 Codename: jessie Architecture: x86_64 Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) -- debconf information: Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; mark\ ed by <-- HERE in m/^(.*?)(\\)?\${ <-- HERE ([^{}]+)}(.*)$/ at /usr/share/\ perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 72. Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; mark\ ed by <-- HERE in m/\${ <-- HERE ([^}]+)}/ at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Con\ fig.pm line 30. -- hkp://keys.gnupg.net CA45 09B5 5351 7C11 A9D1 7286 0036 9E45 1595 8BC0
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--- Begin Message ---Source: gnuplot Source-Version: 5.0.5+dfsg1-3 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of gnuplot, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to 842...@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Anton Gladky <gl...@debian.org> (supplier of updated gnuplot package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 18:58:40 +0100 Source: gnuplot Binary: gnuplot gnuplot-doc gnuplot-nox gnuplot-qt gnuplot-x11 gnuplot-data Architecture: source Version: 5.0.5+dfsg1-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Science Team <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org> Changed-By: Anton Gladky <gl...@debian.org> Description: gnuplot - Command-line driven interactive plotting program, version 5 gnuplot-data - Command-line driven interactive plotting program. Data-files gnuplot-doc - Command-line driven interactive plotting program. Doc-package gnuplot-nox - Command-line driven interactive plotting program. No-X package gnuplot-qt - Command-line driven interactive plotting program. QT-package gnuplot-x11 - Command-line driven interactive plotting program. X-package Closes: 833646 842305 Changes: gnuplot (5.0.5+dfsg1-3) unstable; urgency=medium . * [e2ad793] Untar files in examples and docs. (Closes: #842305) * [c43ec2b] Resurect info-file. (CloseS: #833646) Checksums-Sha1: 13ddc2824d0878af9677b4dbdc931ba94b61ecb2 2682 gnuplot_5.0.5+dfsg1-3.dsc bcca024e870f5dead3e45f64ecf7003df5edf097 29484 gnuplot_5.0.5+dfsg1-3.debian.tar.xz Checksums-Sha256: 86c892463e6f3a2e1ec362913f4f8e58740fdc99b833c6342833d482fc9b8b21 2682 gnuplot_5.0.5+dfsg1-3.dsc 6e4088b4867bef72d4f5aef9f4cbd068ed184862fc040892f10b002cdf46fd9c 29484 gnuplot_5.0.5+dfsg1-3.debian.tar.xz Files: 55a2b3a5d16ac628affb33a98a774578 2682 math optional gnuplot_5.0.5+dfsg1-3.dsc f00aafeb3a5be87176483dbcc96e336d 29484 math optional gnuplot_5.0.5+dfsg1-3.debian.tar.xz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJYJLWVAAoJENPhc4PPp/8G/y8QAI44bUMzm+X/HxdBO9M5vc/z HKZws+AxabvngUCsOCPNfp4lPT8P0ZHpsxf+WolZxt+FB7DxSJ98eK62YibG5Sxj AT/ze7zQr0WEVQ9gmK1hsBkyRF6spyoiw7qWvQMjNnJwtqBDDf8nmrGJZnOTM83B GaHkpufycJw/BiahwQi9Fg1RtaX9VWbiSFA7uhlJ+RtLFyPuUlk0zvjMs9bWhPFx jbGiYkYVhMKRkY7pASy4P+M+TtyC8Fh+Q+nXrKz3qRYafK69ySgCuY1j+MMcR4ZQ obxKObupnRIKDAjWe9buxoasTCQ/FTZY6FlYtsFhS3F1uvCSZza6h/6hiEUK0iP/ 2d8Q1yoKRgCBNYftuuFaU41tequgmIfqduI821RNQRUAgDBkiLqfBMCv1zN6omjr pabLX3Wb7fj/zrJykInX6+4Dqnzr8tDzXpjDX8jAl3XtPypfkU2B0qDTJR/waQwK 2IuAlPRuk8CsYBsh7GD9lHGdZxFhdqNXTDsYIO2a19SRBAQhvL4FDbcQUindTsYa 1Q7dAzor7XsEe5Ixy+3Bd3FCDlYw9fACXVWsthxIIGKgdqNh+ODcokhjZnyanyF2 oNqjpw/juLdLruWLAZ/2JCsHdcc7zj43dmHIUdI4GAwPtUfhWfCVmgE0bnzbTc+W E5lFz6GBvJPgb8zQe+Nk =MHIR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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