Bug#1054233: liblilv-0-0: Package does not follow FHS, it adds /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) to the --default-lv2-path waf configure option, see rules file, line 21.
On 2023-10-29 07:01:07 -0700, Erich Eickmeyer wrote:
> Sebastian,
>
> I'm fairly certian Robin Gareus made it quite clear what Jeremy was saying
> in his reply:
>
> >The LV2 FHS that Jeremy mention can be found at
> >https://lv2plug.in/pages/filesystem-hierarchy-standard.html
> >
> >Now you may not like, or disagree with the official standard, but breaking
> it is not acceptable. This affects various >3rd party software, notably
> Reaper, Harrison Mixbus, Ardour and other non-free DAWs that expect LV2
> plugins in >/usr/lib/lv2/
> >
> >LV2s are to be installed $PREFIX/lib/lv2 (unrelated to $LIBDIR).
> >Most LV2 plugin build systems use LV2DIR = $PREFIX/lib/lv2 for this.
>
> This does divert from the standard location in which shared libraries are
> expected to be located, but LV2 plugins, as you are aware, are not normal
> shared libraries. If they cannot be found in /usr/lib/lv2, then it literally
> breaks the functionality of several DAWs out there, including Ardour (which
> we ship). Sure, users can always manually add the search path of
> /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/lv2 to the software, but that's an
> unnecessary inconvenience.
lilv does not install LV2 plugins. If other packages abuse lilv's libdir
as base to determine LV2DIR, those packages are buggy. As you explain
above, it's not $libdir/lv2 but $prefix/lib/lv2 that's to be used.
> I checked the salsa repo for liblilv (and another) and it seems as though
> /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/lv2 is being intentionally set as the install
> location here, so this simply needs to be reverted. I can even set-up the
> pull request.
Please point me to the place where this is set as install location.
Cheers
--
Sebastian Ramacher
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