mono-jay includes no parser skeleton(s)

[Michael Poole]

Binary package hint: mono

The "jay" executable expects its standard input to be a parser skeleton. "dpkg -L mono-jay" (at least for Gutsy's 1.2.4-6ubuntu6.1 version of mono-jay) does not list anything that looks like a skeleton, and "jay -p" reports its skeleton files are in /usr/local/share/jay, which does not -- and should not -- exist in the standard package. The absence of the skeleton file makes it a rather useless package for end users.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Michael Poole (mdpoole)]

Looking at mono-jay 1.2.6+dfsg-6ubuntu3 from Hardy Heron, there is now a parser skeleton in /usr/share/doc/mono-jay/examples/skeleton.cs. "jay -p" still incorrectly reports /usr/local/share/jay as the install path, so the situation is much improved but is not yet ideal.

Thanks for the ping.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Yeah, you are right. It's a cosmetic issue, I'll see what I can do about it in the sourcecode.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

mono (1.9.1+dfsg-3ubuntu3) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Added new build-env skeldir, pointing to the directory where skeleton files lie. (LP: #179215)

 -- Andreas Moog <email address hidden> Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:57:35 +0200

[Michael Bienia (geser)]

Unsubscribing ubuntu-universe-sponsors as mono is in main.

[Michael Bienia (geser)]

The better fix would be to install the skeleton file in /usr/share/jay and let jay look there for it.

Therefore I didn't subscribe the ubuntu-main-sponsors to this bug yet.

[Jo Shields (directhex)]

Please pass this bug upstream - it appears to be an upstream bug.

As I don't use Jay at all, it would be much better in general (and avoid possible mis-explaining of the problem) if the reporter can pass it on, and attach that Novell bug to this bug. That way, we know about it when (if?) they fix it at their end.

[Jo Shields (directhex)]

mcs/jay/Makefile, right near the top, defines the skel directory. This may need patching at our end.