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gnome-python package

python-gconf: built with rpath

Bug #327671 reported by Sascha Silbe
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-python (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: python-gconf

/usr/lib/python-support/python-gconf/python2.5/gtk-2.0/gconf.so contains an RPATH setting, causing third party software like sugar-jhbuild to fail under certain circumstances [1].
Debians current opinion on rpath [2] seems to be that it should NOT be set, except under very rare circumstances.
Please note that the library search order mentioned in [2] seems to be incorrect: LD_LIBRARY_PATH does NOT override rpath, so (apart from modifying the installed library with chrpath) there's no workaround.
I haven't tested whether Debians packages contain the rpath setting as well, so it might be an upstream packaging bug.

Steps to reproduce:
1. install chrpath
2. chrpath -l /usr/lib/python-support/python-gconf/python2.5/gtk-2.0/gconf.so

Results:
/usr/lib/python-support/python-gconf/python2.5/gtk-2.0/gconf.so: RPATH=/usr/lib

Expected:
no rpath setting

[1] http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/111
[2] http://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/lucid/gnome-python
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Joel Stanley (shenki) wrote :

As pointed out by Andrés Ambrois on IRC, it appears this issue could be solved by syncing gnome-python with Debian experimental:

 gnome-python (2.22.3-1) experimental; urgency=low
 .
   [ Luca Bruno ]
   * New upstream release
   * rules:
     - Remove patch system
   * Add docs file
   * debian/control:
     - Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0 (no changes needed)
     - Add python-gnome2-doc package
     - Add gtk-doc-tools to Build-Deps
     - python-gnome2 Suggests python-gnome2-doc
     - python-gnome2-dev Recommends python-gnome2-doc
   * python-gnome2.examples moved to python-gnome2-doc.examples
   * Change Homepage to http://www.pygtk.org/; the previous Homepage was a
     redirect to the new url.
 .
   [ Emilio Pozuelo Monfort ]
   * Remove dpatch build-dependency.
 .
   [ Josselin Mouette ]
   * Require python 2.5 to match the change in pygobject.
   * Add quilt patch system; build-depend on quilt.
   * 70_relibtoolize.patch: new patch. Relibtoolize the source to avoid
     the rpath issue on amd64.
   * Add copyright statements.

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Sascha Silbe (sascha-ubuntu-launchpad) wrote :

Reported at Debian as #519462.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

thank you for your bug report

Changed in gnome-python:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-python - 2.25.90-0ubuntu2

---------------
gnome-python (2.25.90-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/70_autoreconf.dpatch:
    - autoreconf update to fix rpath issue (lp: #327671)
  * debian/patches/99-run-aclocal+autoconf+automake.dpatch:
    - the change is deprecated by the autoreconf one

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:57:54 +0100

Changed in gnome-python:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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