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Bug 352783 - media-libs/pdflib-7.0.4_p4-r1: installed library files in wrong place
Summary: media-libs/pdflib-7.0.4_p4-r1: installed library files in wrong place
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Library (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: High normal
Assignee: No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it
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Blocks: 355971
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Reported: 2011-01-26 06:20 UTC by Aeolus
Modified: 2011-04-28 15:43 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Aeolus 2011-01-26 06:20:26 UTC
media-libs/pdflib-7.0.4_p4-r1 installed library files as follows:
/usr/pdflib_py.a
/usr/pdflib_py.la
/usr/pdflib_py.so

Should they be in /usr/lib/ directory?

root@tux / $ equery files pdflib
 * Searching for pdflib ...
 * Contents of media-libs/pdflib-7.0.4_p4-r1:
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/pdfimage
/usr/bin/pdflib-config
/usr/bin/text2pdf
/usr/include
/usr/include/pdflib.h
/usr/lib64
/usr/lib64/libpdf.a
/usr/lib64/libpdf.la
/usr/lib64/libpdf.so -> libpdf.so.6.0.4
/usr/lib64/libpdf.so.6 -> libpdf.so.6.0.4
/usr/lib64/libpdf.so.6.0.4
/usr/lib64/perl5
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.2
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.2/x86_64-linux
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.2/x86_64-linux/PDFlib
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.2/x86_64-linux/pdflib_pl.a
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.2/x86_64-linux/pdflib_pl.la
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.2/x86_64-linux/pdflib_pl.so
/usr/pdflib_py.a
/usr/pdflib_py.la
/usr/pdflib_py.so
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/pdflib-7.0.4_p4-r1
/usr/share/doc/pdflib-7.0.4_p4-r1/PDFlib-terms-and-conditions.pdf
/usr/share/doc/pdflib-7.0.4_p4-r1/grid.pdf
/usr/share/doc/pdflib-7.0.4_p4-r1/pdflib
/usr/share/doc/pdflib-7.0.4_p4-r1/pdflib/PDFlib-API-reference.pdf
/usr/share/doc/pdflib-7.0.4_p4-r1/pdflib/PDFlib-Lite-license.pdf
/usr/share/doc/pdflib-7.0.4_p4-r1/pdflib/PDFlib-tutorial.pdf
/usr/share/doc/pdflib-7.0.4_p4-r1/pdflib/changes.txt.bz2
/usr/share/doc/pdflib-7.0.4_p4-r1/pdflib/compatibility.txt.bz2
/usr/share/doc/pdflib-7.0.4_p4-r1/pdflib/licensekeys.txt.bz2
/usr/share/doc/pdflib-7.0.4_p4-r1/pdflib/readme-source-mac.txt.bz2
/usr/share/doc/pdflib-7.0.4_p4-r1/pdflib/readme-source-unix.txt.bz2
/usr/share/doc/pdflib-7.0.4_p4-r1/pdflib/readme-source-windows.txt.bz2
/usr/share/doc/pdflib-7.0.4_p4-r1/pdflib/readme.txt.bz2
/usr/share/doc/pdflib-7.0.4_p4-r1/readme.txt.bz2

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install media-libs/pdflib-7.0.4_p4-r1
2. equery files pdflib


Actual Results:  
you will find pdflib_py.* is installed in /usr directory.

Expected Results:  
they may be in /usr/lib directory
Comment 1 Aeolus 2011-01-26 06:22:03 UTC
root@tux pdflib $ eix media-libs/pdflib

[I] media-libs/pdflib
     Available versions:  (5) 7.0.2_p8 (~)7.0.4_p4-r1
        {+cxx doc elibc_FreeBSD java perl python ruby tcl}
     Installed versions:  7.0.4_p4-r1(5)(12:00:40 PM 12/09/2010)(cxx perl python -doc -elibc_FreeBSD -java -ruby -tcl)
     Homepage:            http://www.pdflib.com/
     Description:         A library for generating PDF on the fly.
Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-01-30 18:45:20 UTC
Directly related to bug #313545. The package is abandoned so it's probably best to uninstall it and use something else to generate PDF output. There's a version 8 out since December 2009 that didn't even get a bump request in the bug tracker.
Comment 3 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2011-02-22 04:53:40 UTC
removal request in bug 355971
Comment 4 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-04-28 15:43:13 UTC
Removed from main tree.