bug#50789: closed (syncthing-gtk creates autostart file with wrong bin)

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> syncthing-gtk creates autostart file with wrong bin
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> Fri, 24 Sep 2021 21:33:56 +0000
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> Hello,
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> syncthing-gtk has an option to enable autostart, which it does by creating the 
> .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart However, this has the wrong exec line, 
> getting the -real script instead of syncthing-gtk. This won't work as it needs 
> to be run as syncthing-gtk. Namely, it produces:
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> Exec=/gnu/store/vf5h9jqhq40x8r46afaa0jgw7awg1361-syncthing-gtk-0.9.4.4-1.c46fbd8/bin/.syncthing-gtk-real
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> Instead of
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> Exec=/gnu/store/vf5h9jqhq40x8r46afaa0jgw7awg1361-syncthing-gtk-0.9.4.4-1.c46fbd8/bin/syncthing-gtk
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> This is due to syncthing-gtk getting its executable name to write to the 
> .desktop file in get_executable(): 
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/syncthing-gtk/-/blob/master/syncthing_gtk/tools.py#L409
>  where due to wrapping it will find something that won't work when run directly.
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> How should this be solved in Guix? Should we patch this part of the code to 
> explicitly rewrite the path to have "syncthing-gtk" instead of 
> ".syncthing-gtk-real"? Related would be the discussion at 
> https://lists.gnu.org/r/guix-devel/2021-09/msg00088.html which I will message 
> separately.
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> Thanks,
> John
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> Re: bug#50789: syncthing-gtk creates autostart file with wrong bin
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> Wed, 5 Jan 2022 16:13:26 -0500
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> On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 09:33:56PM +0000, John Kehayias via Bug reports for GNU 
> Guix wrote:
> > Hello,
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> > syncthing-gtk has an option to enable autostart, which it does by creating 
> > the .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart However, this has the wrong exec 
> > line, getting the -real script instead of syncthing-gtk. This won't work as 
> > it needs to be run as syncthing-gtk. Namely, it produces:
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> > Exec=/gnu/store/vf5h9jqhq40x8r46afaa0jgw7awg1361-syncthing-gtk-0.9.4.4-1.c46fbd8/bin/.syncthing-gtk-real
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> > Instead of
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> > Exec=/gnu/store/vf5h9jqhq40x8r46afaa0jgw7awg1361-syncthing-gtk-0.9.4.4-1.c46fbd8/bin/syncthing-gtk
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> Fixed with commit c37559e81979232feee07aa1eb39faacb093c5ca
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