Bug 912799 – net-mail/mailutils-3.16 installs files into unexpected paths (PYTHON-3.12-SYSTEM)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2023-08-22 06:18:08 UTC]

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

Issue: net-mail/mailutils-3.16 installs files into unexpected paths (PYTHON-3.12-SYSTEM).
Discovered on: amd64 (internal ref: python-3.12_tinderbox)

NOTE:
(PYTHON-3.12-SYSTEM) in the summary means that the bug was found on a machine that runs python-3.12 but this bug MAY or MAY NOT BE related to the new python version

[Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo 2023-08-22 06:18:11 UTC]

Created attachment 868442 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info

[Comment 2 Christian Bricart 2023-09-15 10:39:27 UTC]

not Python 3.12 related

acually it is an option which may be passed to configure:
> …
> --with-mh-bindir  Set the directory where to install the MH binaries.
>                   If it starts with '/' it is taken as an absolute
>                   path specification, otherwise ${prefix} is prepended
>                   to it. (Default: ${exec_prefix}/bin/mu-mh)

which causes the complained files currently to end up in /usr/bin/mu-mh/*

[Comment 3 Eray Aslan 2024-01-08 12:51:48 UTC]

I agree that it is not ideal. However,
- changing binary location is not to be done lightly. It might break existing scripts
- some of the binaries have pretty generic names (burst, folder etc). so we will need to change their names creating inconsistencies in the ecosystem
- other distros also seem to keep them in /usr/bin/mu-mh/ directory so that dir is somewhat expected and we will be again creating an outlier

so, I lean towards not fixing this. closing. please reopen if you feel strongly otherwise