Might be good to give to David Bruce / Tim Holy from upstream.

We can fix at source then and get into the SVN.

On 10 Feb 2009, at 00:04, Loïc Martin <loic.mart...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I got in touch with the Debian maintainer and upstream, and  
> submitted the changes to both when relevant :
> - the displayed name change (note that the package name remains the  
> same)  is documented in the changelog, see "- fix displayed name,  
> which upstream refers as Tux Typing" and check the project page -  
> Tux Typing is the name of the program (we don't display oowriter in  
> the menus for the same reason);
> - I didn't create a debdiff for the sole purpose of fixing EOL  
> spaces, it's merely a bonus since I hads to edit debian/rules anyway.
>
> The debian -4 revision doesn't address all the changes from this
> debdiff. The icon is still put in an incorrect location, the path to
> icon in the .desktop file doesn't follow freedesktop guidelines, the
> displayed name isn't the name of the application (+ I also didn't try
> Debian's -4 package in Jaunty, while I tried this one in i386/amd64
> Jaunty, and amd64 Intrepid).
>
> Considering the Ubuntu package still needs a rather ugly merge
> (conflicting translations, some of them accepted by upstream in newer
> versions, plus added line for Ubuntu in the .desktop file) it might  
> not
> be a bad idea to sit this merge while Debian maintainer waits for  
> Lenny
> to be out, then just merge 1.7.3+ from Debian (with only a line to add
> in the desktop file, no other Ubuntu-specific changes anymore) since
> upstream has already merged the changes in this debdiff (plus other
> changes, since the French .po file was messed up), whether it comes
> before or after Jaunty is out. In the meantime why not  fix these bugs
> already?
>
> I'll file a bug in Debian if I notice the path for the icon isn't
> changed in 1.7.3+ versions, but for the moment, with the maintainer
> already aware of the problem and upstream now having a compliant
> .desktop file in their tarballs, this shouldn't be necessary (no path
> for icon in upstream desktop file = icon put in the right location by
> the packager).
>
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> no application menu entry
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293397
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