glpi install fails due to improper packaging

[lpirotte]

Until ubuntu 12.04 :
- Sencha Ext JS was bundled in the GLPI package & installed in /usr/share/glpi/lib/extjs
- TinyMCE was also bundled & installed in /usr/share/glpi/lib/tiny_mce/

These two librairies are required by GLPI to correctly work.

In 13.10 Sencha Ext JS & TinyMCE were no more bundled in the GLPI package & GLPI is not functionning correctly after the package installation due to lack of dependencies & absence of symbolic links.

If a dependency to the TinyMCE package is correcly configured in the GLPI package, there is no dependency to libjs-extjs is not configured.

In order to properly work,
- a dependency to libjs-extjs must be added in the glpi package
- a symbolic link to libjs must be configured : ln -s /usr/share/javascript/extjs/ /usr/share/glpi/lib/extjs
- a symbolic link to tinyMCE must be configured : ln -s /usr/share/tinymce/www/ /usr/share/glpi/lib/tiny_mce

But it isnt sufficient because the package libjs-extjs doesn't contents localisation files provided by Sencha which still cause glpi to fail (see apache2 access log file) :
GET /glpi/lib/extjs/locale/ext-lang-en.js HTTP/1.1" 404

I didn't find any package including these files and the only way I had solve this issue is to download them from the Sencha web site and copy them into /usr/share/javascript/extjs/locales/

I thing that to neatly solve this issue, these files have to be included in the libjs-extjs package or in a new "libjs-extjs-locales" package.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[rashmani (filippo-f)]

Hi,

problem still exists in Ubuntu 16.04.5 64 bit package, as of today. Installing from the archive works fine.

Filippo