Bug 316955 – sys-libs/libsmbios: Verify and potentially improve Python-related code

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2010-04-24 18:25:12 UTC]

- If this package can be used as a library and installs Python modules
  (*.so or *.py) into site-packages directories, then consider supporting
  installation for multiple Python versions.
  Please read section "Types of packages" in documentation [1] to decide
  if this package can support installation for multiple Python versions.

- Ensure that the ebuilds do not use deprecated functions or variables.

- Please check if Python 3 is supported by this package. You can temporarily
  set Python 3 as main active version of Python to properly test if this
  package supports Python 3.

- If this package does not support Python 3:
  - Specify dependency on Python 2.
    You can use PYTHON_DEPEND helper variable, which should be set before
    inheriting of python eclass.
    Please read section "Specification of dependency on Python" in
    documentation [1].

  - If this package cannot support installation for multiple versions of
    Python, then set active version of Python using
    python_set_active_version().

  - Ensure that shebangs in installed scripts specify correct version of
    Python. If shebangs are too generic (e.g. '#!/usr/bin/python'), then you
    can use python_convert_shebangs() to convert shebangs.
    (Wrapper scripts generated by python_generate_wrapper_scripts() do not
    require any changes.)
    Please read section "Shebangs in installed scripts" in documentation [1].

  - To ensure that changes applied to the ebuilds are sufficient, please
    temporarily set Python 3 as main active version of Python and test if
    this package can be properly installed and if it works at run time.

Please see documentation [1] for more details.
[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/Python/developersguide.xml

[Comment 1 Ian Delaney (RETIRED) 2011-11-12 16:07:12 UTC]

this is already equipped.

 * QA Notice: The following files contain insecure RUNPATHs
 *  Please file a bug about this at http://bugs.gentoo.org/
 *  with the maintaining herd of the package.
 *   /var/tmp/portage/portage/sys-libs/libsmbios-2.2.26/image/usr/sbin/smbios-sys-info-lite
 *

[Comment 2 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2011-11-13 02:32:34 UTC]

Fixed in >=sys-libs/libsmbios-2.2.26.

[Comment 3 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2013-06-18 11:06:08 UTC]

Already migrated the package to python-single-r1 eclass...