Please add gnumeric-dev package
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnumeric (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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gnumeric (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The gnumeric packages in Ubuntu currently lack the development files. Apparently (according to a comment in the rules file) libspreadsheet isn't considered mature enough. This is a mistake IMHO. Mature or not, these files are needed, in particular, to build Gnumeric plugins which are not built as part of Gnumeric itself. An example is my PPA here: https:/
Adding the development package is trivial:
1. Remove these three lines in the rules file:
rm -f debian/
rm -f debian/
rm -rf debian/
2. Add something like the following package description to the control file:
Package: gnumeric-dev
Architecture: any
Depends: gnumeric (= ${binary:Version}), ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends},
libgoffice-0.8-dev
Description: spreadsheet application for GNOME - development files
Gnumeric is a spreadsheet application that interoperates well
with other spreadsheets. It comes with plugins that enable it to deal with
commonly used spreadsheet file formats.
.
This package contains the headers and libraries needed for developing
gnumeric plugins.
3. Add the following file gnumeric-
/usr/include
/usr/lib/pkgconfig
/usr/lib/*.la
Changed in gnumeric (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in gnumeric (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in gnumeric (Debian): | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
Changed in gnumeric (Debian): | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
16 months later and this issue is still there and not even a reply. Is anyone reading these bug reports at all? Shoulkd I report the bug somewhere else?
This issue may not be important for many, as there aren't many 3rd party developers of Gnumeric plugins right now, but it's important for me. Not being able to build a Gnumeric plugins out of tree using the stock Ubuntu packages of Gnumeric means that packaging external Gnumeric plugins here on Launchpad is a major pita. This should be fixed. At least if the Gnumeric developers are interested in 3rd party plugin development.
Come on, this should be worth at least a canned reply of the kind "libspreadsheet is still not mature enough and probably it will never be, so you're on your own". Noone?