Bug 805977 – www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins must be renamed to www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins-bin

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Bogdan 2021-08-01 13:59:45 UTC]

SRC_URI of chrome-binary-plugins-93.0.4577.18_beta.ebuild contains link to binary precompiled package.

Package name of binary program must contains "-bin" suffix.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Mike Gilbert 2021-08-01 15:05:11 UTC]

> Package name of binary program must contains "-bin" suffix.

Says who?

[Comment 2 Mike Gilbert 2021-08-01 15:09:48 UTC]

https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/#binary-packages

[Comment 3 Bogdan 2021-08-03 14:26:03 UTC]

> Says who?

Gentoo distributive: source-based or not source-based?

[Comment 4 Bogdan 2021-08-03 14:41:51 UTC]

Using Gentoo I expect, that Gentoo - is source-based distributive and I can compile all progrms from the source.

"-bin" suffix - is strong way to indicate, that package has precompiled binaries, not a source code.

If package in official Gentoo overlay has precompiled binary program and has no any visual difference before source-based packages, than:
1) Gentoo lose his grants to naming as source-based distributive;
2) Gentoo officially distruct security of systems, by hiding packages with uncontrolled functionality.

[Comment 5 Stephan Hartmann (RETIRED) 2021-08-03 15:25:12 UTC]

Have you read https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/#binary-packages ?

"Such packages should still follow normal naming conventions and do not need any special suffix.
If a binary package is provided in addition to its open-source based equivalent, the name of the former should be suffixed with -bin if necessary for distinction."

[Comment 6 Bogdan 2021-08-03 15:51:30 UTC]

Yes, I read it.
And I know, that any instructions may have mistakes.
And I think, that that instruction HAVE mistake, as it conflicts with statement "Gentoo - is source-based distributive".

Do you consider Gentoo a source-based distributive?
Is Gentoo a source-based distributive or not source-based distributive?

My question touches on a more fundamental topic, and if you cannot answer this question, you cannot claim that that statement is correct.

[Comment 7 Mike Gilbert 2021-08-03 17:07:42 UTC]

This is a bug tracker, not a discussion forum. Any changes to the devmanual should be discussed on the gentoo-dev mailing list.

The status on this bug reflects the currently documented policy. Do not update the status on this bug again.