[Pkg-ayatana-devel] Bug#1086771: vala-sntray-plugin: Wrong placement of the library file prevents detection of the plugin by vala-panel

[Michael Krylov]

Package: vala-sntray-plugin
Version: 0.4.13.1-5
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

I tried to use this plugin with vala-panel only to discover that after
the installation of this package there still was no "Sntray" applet in
the vala-panel's Panel Settings -> Applets -> (+) list. I expected this
plugin to appear there after the installation of this package.

Upon further investigation I found out that this package installs the
shared library that implements the applet to
/usr/lib/vala-panel/applets, while vala-panel searches for it in
/usr/lib/<multiarch string>/vala-panel/applets. I tried to move the
libsntray.so to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/vala-panel/applets (in my case,
other architecutres will have different multiarch string, apparently)
and it fixed the issue.

I would like to suggest fixing the directory into which this package
installs the shared library or, if that's more appropriate, to symlink it
to that directory so that this package is usable again without manual
intervention.

Thanks in advance!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.7
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-25-686 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages vala-sntray-plugin depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.36-9+deb12u8
ii  libcairo2                   1.16.0-7
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0         2.42.10+dfsg-1+deb12u1
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.74.6-2+deb12u3
ii  libgtk-3-0                  3.24.38-2~deb12u2
ii  libpango-1.0-0              1.50.12+ds-1
pn  libvalapanel0               <none>
pn  xfce4-sntray-plugin-common  <none>

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