Bug 316953 – sys-libs/libcap-ng: Verify and potentially improve Python-related code

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2010-04-24 18:24:44 UTC]

- If this package can be used as a library and installs Python modules
  (*.so or *.py) into site-packages directories, then consider supporting
  installation for multiple Python versions.
  Please read section "Types of packages" in documentation [1] to decide
  if this package can support installation for multiple Python versions.

- Ensure that the ebuilds do not use deprecated functions or variables.

- Please check if Python 3 is supported by this package. You can temporarily
  set Python 3 as main active version of Python to properly test if this
  package supports Python 3.

- If this package does not support Python 3:
  - Specify dependency on Python 2.
    You can use PYTHON_DEPEND helper variable, which should be set before
    inheriting of python eclass.
    Please read section "Specification of dependency on Python" in
    documentation [1].

  - If this package cannot support installation for multiple versions of
    Python, then set active version of Python using
    python_set_active_version().

  - Ensure that shebangs in installed scripts specify correct version of
    Python. If shebangs are too generic (e.g. '#!/usr/bin/python'), then you
    can use python_convert_shebangs() to convert shebangs.
    (Wrapper scripts generated by python_generate_wrapper_scripts() do not
    require any changes.)
    Please read section "Shebangs in installed scripts" in documentation [1].

  - To ensure that changes applied to the ebuilds are sufficient, please
    temporarily set Python 3 as main active version of Python and test if
    this package can be properly installed and if it works at run time.

Please see documentation [1] for more details.
[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/Python/developersguide.xml

[Comment 1 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2010-08-05 19:18:48 UTC]

sys-libs/libcap-ng supports Python 3.1, because bindings are generated by SWIG, which supports Python 3.1.

[Comment 2 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2010-08-05 19:25:40 UTC]

Build system needlessly installs .a, .la, .pyc and .pyo files into site-packages directories.

[Comment 3 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2010-09-04 21:00:25 UTC]

Created attachment 246037 [details, diff]
libcap-ng-0.6.4.ebuild.patch

[Comment 4 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2010-09-04 21:03:12 UTC]

Created attachment 246040 [details, diff]
libcap-ng-0.6.4-python.patch

This my path has been accepted by upstream:
https://fedorahosted.org/libcap-ng/changeset/9

[Comment 5 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2010-09-04 21:03:59 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> path

s/path/patch/

[Comment 6 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2010-09-11 21:08:08 UTC]

I will fix this bug, if you don't object in 1 week.

[Comment 7 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2010-09-20 18:44:48 UTC]

Fixed in sys-libs/libcap-ng-0.6.4.