Bug 1421373 - pyserial package comes with a dead symlink
Summary: pyserial package comes with a dead symlink
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Status: CLOSED EOL
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pyserial
Version: 31
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Paul P Komkoff Jr
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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: 1732297 (view as bug list)
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-02-11 17:21 UTC by Michal Jaegermann
Modified: 2020-11-24 16:40 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-11-24 16:40:05 UTC
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2017-02-11 17:21:40 UTC
Description of problem:

The 'pyserial' package supplies the following in /usr/bin:

 /usr/bin/miniterm-2.7.py -> /usr/bin/miniterm.py-2
 /usr/bin/miniterm-2.py
 /usr/bin/miniterm.py

There is no "/usr/bin/miniterm.py-2" and it looks like that this is a typo and /usr/bin/miniterm-2.py was really intendend.  Or if this symlink is not really needed then maybe it should not be there at all?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pyserial-3.1.1-1.fc25

Comment 1 Fedora End Of Life 2017-11-16 19:08:08 UTC
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Comment 2 Michal Jaegermann 2017-11-16 20:40:55 UTC
Exactly the same typo is present in pyserial-3.1.1-4.fc27

Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2018-11-27 18:12:49 UTC
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Comment 4 Michal Jaegermann 2018-11-28 18:36:43 UTC
With Fedora 29 we have two bugs for a price of one as pyserial-3.1.1-10.fc29 comes with two binary packages: python2-pyserial-3.1.1-10.fc29 and python3-pyserial-3.1.1-10.fc29.  The first binary package has in /usr/bin a deal link miniterm-2.7.py -> /usr/bin/miniterm.py-2 while providing only miniterm-2.py and miniterm.py.  The other one has miniterm-3.7.py -> /usr/bin/miniterm.py-3 with only miniterm-3.py present.

Comment 5 Ben Cotton 2019-10-31 20:24:03 UTC
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Comment 7 Michal Jaegermann 2019-11-27 21:35:53 UTC
The original bug, as reported on 2017-02-11, was in the meantime fixed without recording this detail in bugzilla.  OTOH a subpackage python3-pyserial aquired this bug again.  Looking at python3-pyserial-3.4-3.fc31 I see in /usr/bin/:

   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    22 Nov 27 14:22 miniterm-3.7.py -> /usr/bin/miniterm.py-3

Only there is no miniterm.py-3. One can find /usr/bin/miniterm-3.py instead.

Comment 8 Michal Jaegermann 2019-11-27 21:54:45 UTC
(In reply to Michal Jaegermann from comment #7)
> The original bug, as reported on 2017-02-11, was in the meantime fixed

Checking more carefuly I am mistaken that this was fixed for python2-pyserial.  miniterm-2.7.py is still a link to a non-existent /usr/bin/miniterm.py-2 while in /usr/bin there are two identical copies called miniterm.py and miniterm-2.py and also miniterm-3.py which differs from two others only on a "bang line".

Comment 9 "FeRD" (Frank Dana) 2019-12-27 19:04:03 UTC
Miro (churchyard) actually fixed this in the spec last month (in this commit[1]), but only on the master (rawhide) branch. So I guess it'll be fixed in F32, if nothing else.

[1]: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/pyserial/c/5b33d1b3cc67c198d65274c451297b0d80e040d1

Comment 10 "FeRD" (Frank Dana) 2019-12-27 19:05:43 UTC
*** Bug 1732297 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Comment 12 Ben Cotton 2020-11-24 16:40:05 UTC
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