Bug 829512 – dev-cpp/glibmm-2.78.1 installs files into unexpected paths

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2021-12-18 07:04:49 UTC]

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2020/07/04/gentoo-tinderbox/

Issue: dev-cpp/glibmm-2.70.0 installs files into unexpected paths.
Discovered on: amd64 (internal ref: ci)

[Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo 2021-12-18 07:04:51 UTC]

Created attachment 759521 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info

[Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo 2022-07-20 17:01:05 UTC]

ci has reproduced this issue with version 2.72.1 - Updating summary.

[Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo 2022-09-24 05:24:49 UTC]

ci has reproduced this issue with version 2.74.0 - Updating summary.

[Comment 4 Agostino Sarubbo 2023-03-13 07:45:39 UTC]

ci has reproduced this issue with version 2.76.0 - Updating summary.

[Comment 5 Erik 2023-09-28 22:50:57 UTC]

# equery b /usr/include/glibmm-2.68/glibmm/variant_basictypes.h
 * Searching for /usr/include/glibmm-2.68/glibmm/variant_basictypes.h ... 
dev-cpp/glibmm-2.78.0 (/usr/include/glibmm-2.68/glibmm/variant_basictypes.h)

[Comment 6 Sam James 2023-10-07 22:52:24 UTC]

(In reply to Erik from comment #5)
> # equery b /usr/include/glibmm-2.68/glibmm/variant_basictypes.h
>  * Searching for /usr/include/glibmm-2.68/glibmm/variant_basictypes.h ... 
> dev-cpp/glibmm-2.78.0 (/usr/include/glibmm-2.68/glibmm/variant_basictypes.h)

Please explain why that's a problem.

The QA warning here is for docs.

[Comment 7 Erik 2023-10-08 13:13:05 UTC]

(In reply to Sam James from comment #6)
> (In reply to Erik from comment #5)
> > # equery b /usr/include/glibmm-2.68/glibmm/variant_basictypes.h
> >  * Searching for /usr/include/glibmm-2.68/glibmm/variant_basictypes.h ... 
> > dev-cpp/glibmm-2.78.0 (/usr/include/glibmm-2.68/glibmm/variant_basictypes.h)
> 
> Please explain why that's a problem.

It just looks like someone made a new package version but forgot to update the install path. Someone encountering any problem will start to investigate and encounter this.

[Comment 8 Sam James 2023-10-08 13:20:08 UTC]

I'm not sure how you reached that conclusion. The QA warning here is unrelated to slotting or anything like that - it's an FP/issue with gnome packages.

The api version upstream for this package is the same for previous versions per meson.build.

Please state explicitly what you're thinking and why.

[Comment 9 Erik 2023-10-08 13:34:38 UTC]

I did not see any QA warning. Just the output of equery. It shows that version 2.78.0 of the package installed a file in a path containing the version number 2.68. Any ordinary user who encounters some problem will notice it and start investigating whether that may be the cause of the problem. A user would expect version 2.78.0 to install into a path containing "2.78", not "2.68".

I posted here because the subject (except for the version number) matched what I stumbled upon.

[Comment 10 Agostino Sarubbo 2023-12-22 08:39:42 UTC]

gcc14_tinderbox has reproduced this issue with version 2.78.0 - Updating summary.

[Comment 11 Agostino Sarubbo 2024-03-10 07:34:18 UTC]

ci has reproduced this issue with version 2.78.1 - Updating summary.