[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#888838: libxfce4ui-common: xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml not being installed

[Steve Petruzzello]

Package: libxfce4ui-common
Version: 4.12.1-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

I was looking for obsolete conf files with the following command:

dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' | grep obsolete
 /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml 790207e5d25ad049de0ffebde9d19684 obsolete

This file was first present on my system, so I rm it. Then I reinstalled
the package with

apt-get --reinstall install libxfce4ui-common

I re-ran the first command and found the exact same output. But
strangely the file was not present in the directory. I then listed all
installed files with

dpkg --listfiles libxfce4ui-common | grep shortcut
/etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml

but no file on the system.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

Have the file present on the system.

I then 'apt-get source libxfce4ui-common' and looked for the file
xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml. I get:

$ grep -Rn 'xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml' *
libxfce4kbd-private/Makefile.in:551:@ENABLE_KEYBOARD_LIBRARY_TRUE at settings_DATA = xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml
libxfce4kbd-private/Makefile.am:71:settings_DATA = xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml

Here I'm blocked because I don't know the Makefile syntax.

Best,
Steve


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_CH:fr (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

libxfce4ui-common depends on no packages.

libxfce4ui-common recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libxfce4ui-common suggests:
pn  devhelp         <none>
ii  libxfce4ui-1-0  4.12.1-2
ii  libxfce4ui-2-0  4.12.1-2

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml [Errno 2] Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type: '/etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml'

-- no debconf information