libexec migration incomplete

[Egmont Koblinger]

Debian/Ubuntu package of gnome-terminal 3.34.0 moved the server binary from /usr/lib/gnome-terminal to /usr/libexec.

The Ubuntu package ships a wrapper script as /usr/bin/gnome-terminal. This one still looks for the server at its old location in spawn_terminal_server().

It's unclear to me what this wrapper script exactly does, and how/why it still manages to successfully start up gnome-terminal (probably in a different way than it intends to).

[Iain Lane (laney)]

Right, thanks. It is broken if you pass --app-id. I fixed that last night, but I went to bed before testing it :-). What the script does, since you ask, is restore some options that were dropped several releases ago, and broke lots of peoples' desktop launchers. I complained loudly at the time but I couldn't get traction on having them reinstated, so we carry this wrapper to keep compatibility.

https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/commit/?id=b88cca55ea6380e8e7e916d2649508fdcd7b9b7b

Going to upload that in a minute, thanks again for the report.

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

> What the script does, since you ask,

Sorry for the loose phrasing. I was aware of the global picture, just wasn't sure (and was lazy to investigate) when exactly a bug would be triggered, i.e. when that code would be reached, which you answered:

> It is broken if you pass --app-id

Thanks for the libexec migration by the way, it's one less thing for me to worry about (Ubuntu doing something differently than mainstream, and if I forget to pass --libexec= then I end up with a server here and a server there and who knows if the right one is started up, it's a source of all kinds of confusions... you must know the feeling. Anyway, it's probably just me, most users don't care about this change :)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-terminal - 3.34.0-1ubuntu2

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gnome-terminal (3.34.0-1ubuntu2) eoan; urgency=medium

  * gnome-terminal.wrap: Update gnome-terminal-server path for libexec
    migration (LP: #1843872)

 -- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Fri, 13 Sep 2019 09:43:11 +0100