Lazarus desktop file refers to wrong package

[Ivan Cruz]

The lazarus desktop file provided by app-install-data-ubuntu refers to the package 'lazarus-ide', rather than the package 'lazarus'. This results in incomplete lazarus installations.

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When looking for "lazarus", software-center will offer package "lazarus-ide" for instalation. Thats a bad choice because Lazarus will not work properly without "fpc-sources" package and lazarus-ide does not depend on it. This will produce a error message on IDE startup (about improper configuration of fpc sources directory) and many key functionalities, such as writing event handlers will not work at all.

Offering "lazarus" meta-package is a far better option, giving the user a fully functional development environment.

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

I don't understand the problem. Why does the desktop file installed by lazarus-ide influence the choice of software-center?

In what way should the desktop file be changed?

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

I think the problem is that the lazarus desktop file contains the line
X-AppInstall-Package=lazarus-ide, which says that when a user installs lazarus from the software center, the package lazarus-ide must be installed. Instead, it should install lazarus, so the X-AppInstall-Package should be set to lazarus.

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

I can not find the X-AppInstall-Package=lazarus-ide in the lazarus.desktop file in the lazarus package.
I did find it in the lazarus.desktop file in app-install-data-ubuntu, so reassigning there. Seems easy to fix, right?

Why was it ever assigned to lazarus?

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Also note, that Lazarus IDE appears in Development/Graphic interface design instead of the more appropiate Development/IDEs category. This could also be fixed at the same time.