Bug 471286

Summary:	app-i18n/mozc-1.10.1390.102 - unused dev-libs/protobuf dependency?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jack Chen <speed.up08311990>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	CJK Team <cjk>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Jack Chen 2013-05-26 01:49:07 UTC

Current mozc ebuild is using in-tree protobuf source which is unpacked in the src_unpack phase, so it should not require protobuf from system.  (I saw that there's "use_libprotobuf=1" in the ebuild, but it is commented out.)

Thus, I suggest dropping "~dev-libs/protobuf-2.4.1" dependency from the ebuild.

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-05-27 19:40:26 UTC

As per bug #251464 using the internal version is contrary to current QA policy.

Comment 2 Jack Chen 2013-05-28 01:19:59 UTC

(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #1)
> As per bug #251464 using the internal version is contrary to current QA
> policy.

Oops, I didn't know that.  Thank you for pointing it out.
I'll keep in mind that I should avoid using internal library.

However, the change was done according to this upstream bug:
  https://code.google.com/p/mozc/issues/detail?id=14
And this upstream revision:
  https://code.google.com/p/mozc/source/detail?r=96
(see also Gentoo bug #407581)
They switched from linking shared protobuf to linking static protobuf by default in that version, so I followed that change.

It seems that linking to shared protobuf library causes some issue in mozc, but I haven't encountered one personally when mozc was still using shared protobuf by default (I'm using mozc with ibus).
The example given in the bug is related to uim-mozc.  I can't find uim-mozc support in current mozc ebuild.  If uim-mozc gets supported in the future, this issue may appear.

I'd like to know how such confliction (between QA policy and upstream default) should be solved.

Comment 3 Jack Chen 2013-07-31 09:37:21 UTC

I see there's bug 478094 which is fixed now. Should I close this one also?

Comment 4 Naohiro Aota gentoo-dev

2014-01-01 07:49:57 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 478094 ***