Package: paraview Version: 5.7.0-4+b2 Severity: normal The paraview Plugins Manager (Tools->Manage Plugins) says it looks for 3rd party plugins in /usr/bin/plugins.
This does work (meshio-tools 4.0.4-1 provides a plugin there), but it violates standard directory layout and triggers a lintian error "subdir-in-usr-bin". Unreleased docs at https://kitware.github.io/paraview-docs/latest/cxx/PluginHowto.html report that recognised plugin paths also include "A plugins subdirectory under the paraview-X.Y directory in the library path", i.e. in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/paraview-5.7/plugins/ (so it looks like the /usr/bin/plugins path problem might be fixed in paraview 3.8) There are 2 issues installing 3rd party plugins in that directory. Firstly, a plugin might (perhaps) not be specific to a given paraview version, in which case it would be unhelpful to have to specify the 5.7. A tidy generic path could be /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/paraview/plugins/ Possibly even just /usr/lib/paraview/plugins/ (similar to how python modules are handled for python3.7 and python3.8) Secondly, not all plugins are binaries. Python scripts for instance. For these a useful plugin path could be /usr/share/paraview/plugins/ I'm not entirely certain if the versionless lib path /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/paraview/plugins/ (or /usr/lib/paraview/plugins/) actually makes sense. Perhaps compiled binary plugins are necessarily version-specific. But an arch-independent path /usr/share/paraview/plugins could I think be helpful, and probably worth pushing upstream. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages paraview depends on: ii libavcodec58 7:4.2.2-1+b1 ii libavformat58 7:4.2.2-1+b1 ii libavutil56 7:4.2.2-1+b1 ii libc6 2.29-10 ii libdouble-conversion3 3.1.5-5 ii libexpat1 2.2.9-1 ii libfreetype6 2.10.1-2 ii libgcc-s1 [libgcc1] 10-20200211-1 ii libgcc1 1:10-20200211-1 ii libgdal26 3.0.4+dfsg-1 ii libgl1 1.3.0-7 ii libglew2.1 2.1.0-4+b1 ii libhdf5-103 1.10.4+repack-10 ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:1.5.2-2+b1 ii liblz4-1 1.9.2-2 ii liblzma5 5.2.4-1+b1 ii libopenmpi3 4.0.2-5 ii libpdal-base9 2.0.1+ds-1+b1 ii libpng16-16 1.6.37-2 ii libpython3.7 3.7.6-1+b1 ii libqt5core5a 5.12.5+dfsg-8 ii libqt5gui5 5.12.5+dfsg-8 ii libqt5help5 5.12.5-2+b1 ii libqt5network5 5.12.5+dfsg-8 ii libqt5widgets5 5.12.5+dfsg-8 ii libqt5x11extras5 5.12.5-1 ii libstdc++6 10-20200211-1 ii libswscale5 7:4.2.2-1+b1 ii libtiff5 4.1.0+git191117-2 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.8-1 ii libxml2 2.9.10+dfsg-3 ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1+b3 ii python3-autobahn 17.10.1+dfsg1-6 ii python3-matplotlib 3.1.2-2 ii python3-mpi4py 3.0.3-4 ii python3-six 1.14.0-2 ii python3-twisted 18.9.0-6 ii tcl [tclsh] 8.6.9+1+b1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1.2 Versions of packages paraview recommends: ii mpi-default-bin 1.13 ii paraview-doc 5.7.0-4 pn paraview-python <none> Versions of packages paraview suggests: ii h5utils 1.13.1-3+b1 ii hdf5-tools 1.10.4+repack-10 -- no debconf information