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@PhotonX: That's not intended, my mistake.
@fzerorubigd: Your idea about the symlink should work, but I wish there was a cleaner, KISS way of doing it.

Anyway, I'm no longer interested in this package, so if anyone wants to adopt, just say so :)

In the current state the executable file is in /usr/share/applications/clicompanion/, is it intended? Shouldn't only .desktop files be in /usr/share/applications? Also this directory isn't in $PATH, so you can't simply execute the program. The installed .desktop file also fails to start the application. The only way to start it is to run it with the whole path...

@dcelasun
You can remove the link in post_remove function, or you can create an empty file in build, and remove it in post install and create a link instead of that file. so the file exist in package but actually its a place holder. (this are suggestions :) there is always a better way.)

And thanks for your work.

@fzerorubigd: Well, that's weird since the symlink did work for me.

Still, as I can I see from your output, you are right and I'm wrong. Though I believe I can find a way to fix this inside the package() function and not the .install file. If I can't, I'll do as you suggested and deal with it inside post_install().

Sorry if my previous post seemed a bit harsh, that wasn't my intention at all. Thanks for your help.

I install this and after install I check it :
ls -l /usr/bin/clicompanion
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 89 Dec 17 00:03 /usr/bin/clicompanion -> /home/f0rud/Desktop/clicompanion-bzr/pkg/usr/share/applications/clicompanion/clicompanion

(Just install it again now)

And you can see, Its a link to place that I use the makepkg not the correct place.
Check it yourself.
And about delete upon uninstall, there is many workaround...

-- I also found a bug on program and I fill a bug report on launchpad too.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/clicompanion/+bug/691266

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"did you even try installing the package?"
I want to help ,not to annoy you. yes I do install the package and not once, 3 time.

Uhm, actually you are quite wrong. The soft link is package() works as intended (did you even try installing the package?). If I did it in the install file the resulting /usr/bin/clicompanion would NOT belong to the package and removing the package would NOT remove /usr/bin/clicompanion. That is completely against Arch Packaging Guidelines.

So, the package stays as it is.

You should *NOT* make a soft link in build function (or in this case in package() ) .
Now the /usr/bin/clicompanion is link to place you make package not the /usr/share/applications/clicompanion/clicompanion
It should be done in post.install file not here!!!

Also, the author of clicompanion informed me that he'd love to hear any opinions/ideas etc. regarding the program. Just post anything you'd like as a comment.

All runtime errors are now fixed and package updated.

Well, I think I've fixed that error, but now there is a new one. Upstream changed some files and the PKGBUILD will need some changes. I'll take a look at it soon.

sorry, comment got entered twice. But the error persists.

Yeah, I know that, I'm trying to figure out why that is happening.

I get the following error:

==> Starting package()...
cp: cannot stat `clicompanion/menus_buttons.py': No such file or directory
Aborting...

@jarav: Package updated, that error should be gone now.

I get the following error:

==> Starting package()...
cp: cannot stat `clicompanion/menus_buttons.py': No such file or directory
Aborting...

@fzerorubigd: Weird, I don't get that error. I'll investigate and see if I can find something.

I get this error when run this application :
$ clicompanion
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "clicompanion.py", line 54, in <module>
idioma = get_language()
File "clicompanion.py", line 47, in get_language
traducidos = os.listdir(locale_dir)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/clicompanion/locale'