[Scribus] No "insert special"

[Atlantic Tech Solutions]

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 08:50, ephemeron wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 09:50:36 -0500,
> Peter Linnell wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 07:59, Wolfgang Pagel wrote:
> 
> > > I use Scribus 1.1.2 for Debian Sid with german interface
> > > language.  (I got the .deb from
> > > http://debian.chutelibre.org).  In the "Extras" menue I find
> > > only "Silbentrennung" and "Bild?bersicht".  I miss "Insert
> > > special" (or the German equivalent).  How can I get it?
> > > Maybe I have to edit the sribus.rc file.  But in which
> > > manner?  Can anybody help me?
> > > 
> > Are there any errors in the console like "Can't find plug-in" ?
> 
> I remember this problem from the last Debian Scribus package I
> had installed.  This doesn't occur when I install Scribus from
> source.
> 
> I haven't been using "official" package lately, since it tended
> to be fairly out-of-date.  But I suspect the missing plugins
> problem is really a packaging fault.  AFAICT in creating binary
> packages, the Debian build system does a "dummy" install into (a
> relative directory like) ./debian/tmp and then zips that up.
> Scribus might be looking for its plugins in the packager's
> ./debian/tmp, or else the plugins failed to install in
> ./debian/tmp and thus were never packaged in the first place.
> 
> A command like "dpkg --contents scribus*.deb | grep charselect"
> should check if the latter is the case.

Thanks for the hint. Has this been reported to the package maintainer ?

Regards,
Peter