Created attachment 530826 [details] example patch to fix widget Description of problem: The Tk widget demos in /usr/share/doc/perl-Tk-804.028 don't work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): perl-Tk-804.028 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1.cd /usr/share/doc/perl-Tk-804.028 2. ./widget 3. Actual results: error message :- Can't locate WidgetDemo.pm in @INC (@INC contains: @/widget_lib /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at ./widget line 10. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./widget line 10. Expected results: working demos :) Additional info: It looks as though the widget perl program has not been installed correctly. It contains references to "@demopath@" which I guess should have been changed during a proper install. The attached patch makes these demos work for me :)
files in /usr/share/doc are meant to be "documentation" and are not required to work out of the box. Independently of this, we should check what's happening in this case. If all else fail, we should simply remove these files.
Well - it is a important part of the Perl/Tk docs that it ships with a set of working examples! I'd hate to see them go missing altogether as the rest of the Tk docs are a bit sparse. Maybe these demos could be moved into their own package, and installed somewhere else ? regards Richard
(In reply to comment #2) > Well - it is a important part of the Perl/Tk docs that it ships with a set of > working examples! I'd hate to see them go missing altogether as the rest of the > Tk docs are a bit sparse. Understood, but the issues you are reporting must have been present for quite some time ;) > Maybe these demos could be moved into their own package, and installed > somewhere else ? I meanwhile had a deeper look into this issue. All the issues you report originate from upstream shipping the demos as integral part of the perl-Tk package, while the Fedora package has changes applied which try to move demos into /usr/share/doc. Unfortunately, these changes are incomplete and don't work (they are causing the problems you are reporting). So, yes, reverting these Fedora changes and splitting the demos into a separate subpackage will likely work - Unfortunately, upstream's choice of installation directories them is controversial and would need require thought. An alternative would be to make the Fedora-specific changes working.
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