lesstif 0.95 violates the layout of the ports-filesystems

[jrtomshine@…]

It appears that the lesstif package is installing files where it shouldn't be:

--->  Fetching lesstif
--->  Attempting to fetch lesstif-0.95.0.tar.bz2 from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lesstif
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for lesstif
--->  Extracting lesstif
--->  Configuring lesstif
--->  Building lesstif with target all
--->  Staging lesstif into destroot
Warning: violation by /opt
Warning: violation by /usr/X11R6/LessTif
Warning: violation by /usr/X11R6/man
Warning: lesstif violates the layout of the ports-filesystems!
Warning: Please fix or indicate this misbehavior (if it is intended), it will be an error in future releases!
--->  Installing lesstif 0.95.0_0
--->  Activating lesstif 0.95.0_0
--->  Cleaning lesstif

[jrtomshine@…]

Also, if there are files in incorrect places (and possibly non-standard directories that have been created), will macports clean up after this package is removed -- delete the incorrect files & directories?

I'd like to prevent my system from being polluted with orphan files & directories.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Cc maintainer. No files will be orphaned, they'll be removed on uninstall like anything else. The warning is due to files being installed outside the MacPorts prefix.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Assigning to maintainer.

lesstif appears to intend to install files in ${x11prefix}/LessTif so the keyword destroot.violate_mtree yes should be added to the portfile.

lesstif installs manpages into ${x11prefix}/man which is an error. The port should install manpages into ${x11prefix}/share/man (or possibly ${prefix}/share/man).

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Jeremy changed the port r43176 (lesstif @0.95.0_1) to install in ${prefix} instead of ${x11prefix} (see #17508) but it still violates the mtree.

--->  Fetching lesstif
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for lesstif
--->  Extracting lesstif
--->  Configuring lesstif
--->  Building lesstif
--->  Staging lesstif into destroot
Warning: violation by /opt/local/LessTif
Warning: violation by /opt/local/man
Warning: lesstif violates the layout of the ports-filesystems!
Warning: Please fix or indicate this misbehavior (if it is intended), it will be an error in future releases!

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Milestone Port Bugs deleted

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

FYI, upstream recommends using opemotif instead. We may want to just delete the lesstif port.

[kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)]

Cc Me!

[kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)]

I would agree to remove it - only the variant puredarwin for xpdf use lesstif

[kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)]

Jeremy, you updated this port last Oct. Do you object to removing this port?

[jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)]

I sure don't. I recommended deleting it in some other threads.

[kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)]

thanks removed r147105