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Bug 30651 - Dia links with the wrong version of the slotted pango library
Summary: Dia links with the wrong version of the slotted pango library
Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High major (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team
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Reported: 2003-10-08 03:31 UTC by Per Cederberg
Modified: 2003-10-10 14:50 UTC (History)
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Description Per Cederberg 2003-10-08 03:31:47 UTC
As of Gnome 2.4, it seems the Pango library is slotted. On my system I have both
version 1.2.3 and 1.2.5 installed. According to a bug in Dia and/or Pango, Dia
0.91 is not compatible with pango 1.2.4+, causing various font problems:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123430

I've had such font problems since updating Gnome to 2.4, and currently don't get
any fonts in Dia at all. However, the Dia ebuild partly seems to "be aware" of
the problem, as the following dependency is present:

DEPEND=">=x11-libs/gtk+-2.0.0
        <=x11-libs/pango-1.2.3
...

Now, checking the shared libraries used by my running Dia process I found this:

#>grep libpango- /proc/27007/maps
406b8000-406df000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 424776     /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0.200.5
406df000-406eb000 rw-p 00026000 03:03 424776     /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0.200.5

So, it seems that Dia is actually using the pango 1.2.5 shared libaries instead
of the 1.2.3 shared libraries. I guess this is due to the slotting of the Pango
library not being present when writing the Dia ebuild. I assume that the ebuild
needs to be rectified to link to the correct ....200.3 versions of the Pango
shared libraries.

There is also a relevant discussion in the forums:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=84617


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:


Actual Results:  
Due to this problem (probably), no fonts are visible in my Dia installation.

Expected Results:  
Obviously, the fonts should be seen.

Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1,
2.4.20-gentoo-r7)=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium2 -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
/opt/tomcat/conf /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium2 -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache fixpackages sandbox userpriv"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.linux.no/ http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 apm encode foomaticdb jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mmx ncurses nls quicktime
xml2 xmms zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang readline tetex bonobo tcltk guile mysql
sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib motif opengl cdr apache2 avi
cups dga doc emacs evo gnome gif gtk innodb java mozilla mozsvg mpeg oggvorbis
oss pdflib pic png samba sis spell sse truetype usb X xv -alsa -arts -crypt -kde
-svga -qt"
Comment 1 Per Cederberg 2003-10-08 04:45:13 UTC
I've just verified that this is indeed the cause of my font problem in Dia.
It can be demonstrated by testing Dia with the normal Pango installled, and
then doing:

emerge =pango-1.2.3

After that, Dia displays fonts just as it was supposed to.
Comment 2 Per Cederberg 2003-10-08 06:33:14 UTC
On more careful consideration, looks like the Pango library isn't slotted
at all. But how come that I got both version 1.2.3 and 1.2.5 installed after
updating to Gnome 2.4. Indeed, if I now do "emerge -upv --deep dia gnome"
it suggests updating Pango to 1.2.5, without showing the blocker that Dia
should cause with Pango >= 1.2.4... Is this really a Portage or Pango bug?
Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-10-08 08:10:06 UTC
The ebuilds did get reslotted. This shouldn't be a problem, only the pango
problem with fonts turned up. Just remove the other pango directly or alltogether
first if you have problems, but you already did that so it shouldnt be a
problem anymore.

The problem you describe is not portage but probably the suggested order
of your emerge, the gnome part doesn't know about dia, dia is fine with the
pango as it is and only after that gnome updates it to .5 .

Comment 4 Per Cederberg 2003-10-08 08:39:15 UTC
Not quite sure I understood that answer completely. I now have this situation:

* Gnome 2.4 requires Pango 1.2.5
* Dia 0.91  requires Pango < 1.2.4  or no fonts show at all

So, isn't this a bug? At least Pango 1.2.5 should be considered unstable,
or a similar solution. Dia 0.92 will be fixed in this respect.

Also, have a look at bug #30663 which is another problem that is also caused
by Pango 1.2.5.
Comment 5 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-10-08 08:51:04 UTC
i dont see it as one, afaik the problem is the dia usage of pango, not pango
itsself. Same may be true for gdm, although i don't see that behaviour.

About the deps i can't do much, they are correct in both cases : the gnome
meta package just follows the release verions and i have little reason to
believe pango is the problem (see up). That these two things conflict is
unfortunate, but the number of gnome meta users is far greater than the number
of dia users, so the last group has a bit of bad luck in this. 

But we could probably up the dia versions soon to one of the prereleases,
although i'm not a big fan of these practices ;) Or someone could maybe extract
the relevant pango patching for dia from CVS to use adapt to 0.91
Comment 6 Per Cederberg 2003-10-08 09:04:51 UTC
Ok, I understand the reasoning. It is just so hard to be part of a minority...
;-)

Maybe I also misread the Gnome Dia bug a bit. It seemed like the error was
in Pango, but reading carefully between the lines it is possible that the
problem was actually in Dia. (Oh, we developers, never admitting a bug to
be ours...)

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123430

Anyway, I'll see if I can make contact with the Dia developers about this.
I'll get annoying again if I find a smoother solution.
Comment 7 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-10-10 14:50:13 UTC
well, dia-0.92_pre4 is now in portage. that should solve the pango dilema
for the moment.