Bug 476088 – app-office/openoffice-bin-3.4.1 @preserved-rebuild wants to reinstall because of missing python:2.6

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Amadeusz Żołnowski (RETIRED) 2013-07-07 18:00:20 UTC]

emerge --depclean removed python:2.6 and @preserved-rebuild wants to reinstall openoffice-bin because of missing python:2.6, but of course reinstall doesn't help in this case:

!!! existing preserved libs:
>>> package: dev-lang/python-2.6.8-r2
 *  - /usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0
 *      used by /usr/lib64/openoffice/basis3.4/program/python-core-2.6.1/lib/lib-dynload/_bisect.so (app-office/openoffice-bin-3.4.1)
 *      used by /usr/lib64/openoffice/basis3.4/program/python-core-2.6.1/lib/lib-dynload/_bytesio.so (app-office/openoffice-bin-3.4.1)
 *      used by /usr/lib64/openoffice/basis3.4/program/python-core-2.6.1/lib/lib-dynload/_codecs_cn.so (app-office/openoffice-bin-3.4.1)
 *      used by 56 other files
Use emerge @preserved-rebuild to rebuild packages using these libraries

I don't know if this is openoffice-bin issue (not depending on python:2.6) or portage bug.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2013-07-07 18:43:21 UTC]

This is a problem of openoffice-bin.
I didn't want to make python:2.6 a hard dependency, because only minor functions are affected.

[Comment 2 Amadeusz Żołnowski (RETIRED) 2013-07-08 07:29:31 UTC]

Minor or not it is a dependency. Could you add it to not confuse users, please? Maybe in the future releases they move on to newer versions of Python.

[Comment 3 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2013-07-08 09:47:44 UTC]

Well it is optional, and not automagic.

So I saw no reason to make it a hard dependency in the ebuild.

[Comment 4 Amadeusz Żołnowski (RETIRED) 2013-07-08 11:33:53 UTC]

Well, but then portage warns every time about existing preserved libs, which doesn't look much like an optional and is frustrating. Should we learn users to ignore such warnings? On the other hand adding python:2.6 to world file isn't clean either, because if openoffice-bin is removed, python:2.6 is left. It requires from users handling dependencies by themselves, but this should be the portage job.

Maybe you could add at least "python" to IUSE and make it enabled by default and comment it in metadata.xml what is going to happen if it is disabled?

[Comment 5 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2013-07-08 11:38:20 UTC]

I could make a python flag and prevent installation of the stuff in /usr/lib64/openoffice/basis3.4/program/python-core-2.6.1/ if it is unset.

[Comment 6 Amadeusz Żołnowski (RETIRED) 2013-07-08 14:15:12 UTC]

Yes, please.

[Comment 7 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2013-07-23 22:44:01 UTC]

Fixed by unconditionally depending on python:2.7 in openoffice-bin-4.0.0

I might add a python USE flag later.

[Comment 8 Amadeusz Żołnowski (RETIRED) 2013-07-26 10:22:19 UTC]

Thanks! :-)