[SRU] lv2 plugin installs to wrong directory

[Rob van den Berg]

[ Impact ]

geonkick's build system, by default is installing the lv2 plugin to the wrong directory (/usr/lib/${ARCH}/lv2 as opposed to the canonical /usr/lib/lv2). This is causing applications that use lv2 plugins such as ardour and carla to not find this plugin.

[ Test Plan ]

* Install geonkick
* Install carla
* Look for geonkick in carla, it will not be found.

[ Where Problems Could Occur ]

As this is a packaging error and, quite possibly, an upstream install error (or intentional), it might install to the wrong directory for applications that look for the architecture-specific directory, but this is unlikely in Ubuntu and Debian appplications as the architecture-specific directory is not canonical for lv2 plugins.

[ Other Information ]

Original bug report follows:

geonkick installed the lv2 plugin in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lv2
as shown by :
dpkg -L geonkick
/.
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/geonkick
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lv2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lv2/geonkick.lv2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lv2/geonkick.lv2/geonkick.ttl
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lv2/geonkick.lv2/geonkick_lv2.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lv2/geonkick.lv2/geonkick_single_lv2.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lv2/geonkick.lv2/manifest.ttl

lv2 hosts like ardour, carla etc, can't find the lv2 plugin

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.10
Package: geonkick 2.8.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-19.19-lowlatency 5.13.14
Uname: Linux 5.13.0-19-lowlatency x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu70
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Tue Oct 12 18:01:08 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-10-08 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 21.10 "Impish Indri" - Beta amd64 (20210921)
SourcePackage: geonkick
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello Rob, or anyone else affected,

Accepted geonkick into impish-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/geonkick/2.8.0-0ubuntu2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-impish to verification-done-impish. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-impish. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package geonkick - 2.8.0-0ubuntu2

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geonkick (2.8.0-0ubuntu2) impish; urgency=medium

  * Change install directory of LV2 plugin (LP: #1946779)

 -- Erich Eickmeyer <email address hidden> Tue, 12 Oct 2021 12:40:34 -0700

[Rob van den Berg (rghvdberg)]

I just installed geonkick from impish proposed and geonkick is found and makes sound.
I did see did dpkg -l geonkick lists /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu , just the dir, no files.

Rob van den Berg

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

> I did see did dpkg -l geonkick lists /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu , just the dir, no files.

Unfortunately there was no way to avoid that as the compilation process creates that directory, but no files. I can probably fix that in the future, but since the baseline of the bug was functionality, that goal is met.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package geonkick - 2.8.0-0ubuntu2

---------------
geonkick (2.8.0-0ubuntu2) impish; urgency=medium

  * Change install directory of LV2 plugin (LP: #1946779)

 -- Erich Eickmeyer <email address hidden> Tue, 12 Oct 2021 12:40:34 -0700

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for geonkick has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.