Bug 341653

Summary:	sci-visualization/veusz: Showing license from program fails.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Thomas Kahle (RETIRED) <tomka>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Science Related Packages <sci>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial	CC:	esigra, jlec, qa
Priority:	High
Version:	2007.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	373349

Description Thomas Kahle (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-10-18 15:15:42 UTC

In the "Help" menu select "About". Then "Show license".

Probably the license file should just go to some special hardwired location?

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
displays GPL

Comment 1 Andrey Grozin gentoo-dev

2011-07-26 12:09:55 UTC

Thanks, a fix committed.

Comment 2 Michał Górny archtester

2015-11-21 17:55:41 UTC

Sorry to disappoint you but this solution is invalid and also a QA violation. You must not symlink anything from PORTDIR since this is location specific to the current state of build system. The symlink will be incorrect when a binary package is installed on another system or when you will simply move it. Not to mention the potential possibility of removing/renaming the license in the future.

Comment 3 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-11-23 10:10:27 UTC

commit f592cd94e57c175c4f8f501d87658ce9a8b81df8
Author: Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org>
Date:   Mon Nov 23 09:59:17 2015 +0100

    sci-visualization/veusz: Drop symlink into PORTDIR

    Gentoo-Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341653

    Package-Manager: portage-2.2.25
    Signed-off-by: Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org>

    https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=f592cd94e57c175c4f8f501d87658ce9a8b81df8