[kdesdk-scripts] [Bug 401965] New: Missing subdirectories of kde-dev-scripts-18.04.3-1.fc29

[Matt Fagnani]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401965

Bug ID: 401965
Summary: Missing subdirectories of
kde-dev-scripts-18.04.3-1.fc29
Product: kdesdk-scripts
Version: unspecified
Platform: Fedora RPMs
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Miscellaneous
Assignee: ***@kde.org
Reporter: ***@utoronto.ca
Target Milestone: ---

SUMMARY

kde-dev-scripts-18.04.3-1.fc29 on Fedora 29 appears to be missing various
subdirectories with programs such as gdb, kf5, frameworks, kde-emacs, qt4 which
are in the kde-dev-scripts-18.04.3 git tree at
https://cgit.kde.org/kde-dev-scripts.git/tree/?h=Applications%2F18.04

Those subdirectories aren't shown by sudo dnf repoquery -l kde-dev-scripts
or at https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=14654888


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. sudo dnf repoquery -l kde-dev-scripts
2. check https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=14654888
3. check subdirectories in git tree at
https://cgit.kde.org/kde-dev-scripts.git/tree/?h=Applications%2F18.04

OBSERVED RESULT

kde-dev-scripts-18.04.3-1.fc29 is missing various subdirectories with programs.

EXPECTED RESULT

kde-dev-scripts-18.04.3-1.fc29 contains the subdirectories above

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora 29
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.52.0
Qt Version: 5.11.1

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Rex Dieter wrote the following at the entry I made for Fedora at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1657575

"Good question for upstream. As you can see from,
https://cgit.kde.org/kde-dev-scripts.git/tree/CMakeLists.txt?h=Applications/18.04

Those extra items you mention are indeed not installed by default (I assume
that is on purpose)"

The question is if the directories above were intentionally omitted from the
CMakeLists.txt install parts or not. I assigned this to kdesdk-scripts because
it was the closest component I could find to kde-dev-scripts.

[Rex Dieter]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401965

Rex Dieter <***@gmail.com> changed:

What |Removed |Added
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CC| |***@gmail.com

[Michael Pyne]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401965

--- Comment #1 from Michael Pyne <***@kde.org> ---
This is indeed at least partially intentional. I won't promise that there's not
been oversights from developers adding scripts to forget to also update the
CMakeLists.txt so that it gets installed.

But for things like gdb/, there's special added work that needs to be done each
time and the result varies by Qt's .so version so it's not appropriate for
install. qt4/ is old, kde-emacs/ doesn't hold scripts appropriate for bin/, and
frameworks/ was more of the one-time work to assemble KF5 than useful things to
install.

kf5/ looks like it has a lot of goodness in there which could be installed
though, and probably replace the ancient cvs and svn support scripts that we
*do* install.

Are there specific scripts you're wanting to be installed? I'm not sure it
makes sense to just dump the full git repo contents into a given install dir,
except maybe for adding kf5/*.

[Matt Fagnani]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401965

--- Comment #2 from Matt Fagnani <***@utoronto.ca> ---
(In reply to Michael Pyne from comment #1)

Post by Michael Pyne
This is indeed at least partially intentional. I won't promise that there's
not been oversights from developers adding scripts to forget to also update
the CMakeLists.txt so that it gets installed.
But for things like gdb/, there's special added work that needs to be done
each time and the result varies by Qt's .so version so it's not appropriate
for install. qt4/ is old, kde-emacs/ doesn't hold scripts appropriate for
bin/, and frameworks/ was more of the one-time work to assemble KF5 than
useful things to install.
kf5/ looks like it has a lot of goodness in there which could be installed
though, and probably replace the ancient cvs and svn support scripts that we
*do* install.
Are there specific scripts you're wanting to be installed? I'm not sure it
makes sense to just dump the full git repo contents into a given install
dir, except maybe for adding kf5/*.

I was looking to use the scripts in the gdb directory to print out the values
of Qt objects like QStrings in gdb. I've been troubleshooting ksysguard crashes
when it's been shutting down due to segmentation faults which I found were
resulting from use-after-free errors as I described in bug 400499

I ran git clone https://anongit.kde.org/kde-dev-scripts.git
In gdb, I ran source /programs/kde-dev-scripts/gdb/load-qt5printers.py
The values of QString variables were printed correctly after that.
That workaround did what I was looking to do.

Some of the directories might be added to packages but not others I take it
then. Perhaps Rex or the other maintainers could add the kf5 and possibly other
directories if they wish. I just found the kde-dev-scripts package yesterday
and installed it, so I wasn't sure what was normally in the package or not.
Thanks for your explanation which clarified what the various directories and
programs contain and how up to date they are for me.