Don't install anything to /usr/share/app-install

[Mario Kemper (Romario)]

See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532178

This is already fixed in the official ubuntu / debian packages.

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

It was also criticized in this comment:
http://shutter-project.org/2009/07/shutter-0-80-released-great-stuff-inside/#comment-1652

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Not anything... only for karmic, because shutter is already in it and
app-install has the data for it. It doesn't have the data for jaunty,
intrepid, or hardy.

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

> Not anything... only for karmic, because shutter is already in it and
> app-install has the data for it. It doesn't have the data for jaunty,
> intrepid, or hardy.
>
I know, but the problem is that our way of providing data for
gnome-app-install is not working at all.

The needed files (.desktop file and the icon) are copied to the desired
location (/usr/share/app-install) when the .deb package is installed.
This means, that the user is able to uninstall Shutter via 'Add/Remove'
but the user won't be able to install Shutter via 'Add/Remove'.

Due to the fact that this doesn't make much sense I've removed the
directory/files from the branch.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Well that's the point, to at least be able to uninstall in a human manner.
Otherwise you can't unless you use Synaptic or terminal.

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

Maybe it is easier to uninstall an application via Add/Remove but I think users would not expect shutter to be listed there because they did not install via Add/Remove. That's a bit inconsistent...

Because the shutter package is architecture-independent it is quite easy to maintain (I can simply copy it from karmic to jaunty/intrepid/hardy after uploading). If we want to do things differently for different ubuntu releases we have to create different .deb packages. Even though it is not a big deal it is at least more error-prone and time-intensive.

Anyway, we should at least move the /usr/share/app-install stuff to the packaging branch (lp:~mario-kemper/shutter/packaging) so maintainers of different distributions don't need to remove the files/directories when checking out the bzr branch or downloading the latest tarball.