Ubuntu
kipina package

no workout preset data for kipina

Bug #295401 reported by Efrain Valles on 2008-11-08

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	kipina (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: kipina

Kipina does not have any preset data for workouts. Originally Kipina comes with some prebuilt information about generic workout and activities with estimated completion times.

Steps to reproduce:

1) Open Kipina
2) in the calendar:
    - right click on a day for a contextual menu
    - add a workout
      - notice the "Sport: choose a sport" combo box has no relevant data.

also notice if kipina is run in a terminal the message of failure to load the xml file with the data:

evalles@felicia:~$ kipina
cp: no se puede efectuar `stat' sobre «/usr/etc/kipina-presetdata.xml»: No existe el fichero ó directorio
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/home/evalles/.kipina/presetdata.xml"

** (process:18407): WARNING **: Parse error, couldn't parse file /home/evalles/.kipina/presetdata.xml!

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Efrain Valles (effie-jayx) wrote on 2008-11-08:

I have identified the problem and I am currently fixing it. It seems the file is where it is suppoed to be but hte app keeps refering to /usr/etc instead of /etc to find that file. I should test and add a patch that can fix this

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Daniel Moerner (dmoerner) wrote on 2008-11-08:

Hi, a simpler fix for this problem is to change the parameters passed to ./configure.

./configure -h explains:

--sysconfdir=DIR read-only single-machine data [PREFIX/etc]

Since PREFIX is set to /usr, it is installing to /usr/etc. You should pass --sysconfdir=$(DESTDIR)/etc to ./configure in debian/rules and then remove the superfluous "mv" command in the install target.

By the way, I came across this bug while perusing Planet Ubuntu, which has your blog. If you want any more comments on your package I'd be happy to communicate with you by email (for instance, the copyright file is currently incomplete and the package is not Lintian clean)

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Efrain Valles (effie-jayx) wrote on 2008-11-09:

kipina_0.2.2-0ubuntu2.debdiff Edit (6.7 KiB, text/plain)

I have made the suggested changes and it worked. I was albe to run kipinä with the presetdata on a jaunty box, I attach a debdiff from versions and build log.

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Efrain Valles (effie-jayx) wrote on 2008-11-09:

build log Edit (161.6 KiB, text/plain)

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Daniel Moerner (dmoerner) wrote on 2008-11-09: Re: [Bug 295401] Re: no workout preset data for kipina

0001-changed-debian-rules.patch Edit (1.2 KiB, text/x-patch; name=0001-changed-debian-rules.patch)

On 11/9/08, Efrain Valles <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> I have made the suggested changes and it worked. I was albe to run kipinä with the presetdata on a jaunty box, I attach a debdiff from versions and build log.
>

This is one way to fix it, but a more portable fix would be to just
patch debian/rules. In general it's better to use debian/rules for
things like this instead of patching the source. If you do want to
patch the source, you might want to use a patch system like cdbs or
quilt. In the patch below I also spaced out the ./configure call a
bit to make it easier to read.

Daniel