bug#53790: closed (Audacity has extraneous binary at directory root)

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> Audacity has extraneous binary at directory root
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> Fri, 4 Feb 2022 17:03:15 -0500
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> Our Audacity package creates an extraneous "audacity" binary in the root
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> $ git describe                                   
> v1.3.0-15695-gba60aede97 
> $ ls -la $(./pre-inst-env guix build audacity)    
> total 49012                
> dr-xr-xr-x    6 root root          4096 Dec 31  1969 .
> drwxrwxr-t 3440 root guixbuild 50139136 Feb  4 17:00 ..
> -r-xr-xr-x    1 root root           337 Dec 31  1969 audacity
> dr-xr-xr-x    2 root root          4096 Dec 31  1969 bin
> dr-xr-xr-x    2 root root          4096 Dec 31  1969 etc
> dr-xr-xr-x    3 root root          4096 Dec 31  1969 lib
> dr-xr-xr-x   11 root root          4096 Dec 31  1969 share
> $ ls -la $(./pre-inst-env guix build audacity)/bin
> total 18404
> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 Dec 31  1969 .
> dr-xr-xr-x 6 root root     4096 Dec 31  1969 ..
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root      600 Dec 31  1969 audacity
> -r-xr-xr-x 2 root root 18827912 Dec 31  1969 .audacity-real
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> This didn't occur before the update from Audacity 2.4.2 to 3.1.3.
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> Am Samstag, dem 05.02.2022 um 13:52 -0500 schrieb Leo Famulari:
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> > > We can try searching for the bits in CMakeLists that install this
> > > wrapper or we can simply drop the file.  WDYT?
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> > I don't know... I wonder if Audacity is worse for Guix users since
> > this shell script doesn't end up in $PATH.
> After more than half a year without any complaint about our audacity
> command, I doubt this.  Thus I pushed a patch that removes the
> gratuitous audacity.
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> Cheers
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