Bug 536820 – games-strategy/wesnoth-1.12[-nls] depends on boost[nls]

• Status: VERIFIED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Tolga Dalman 2015-01-17 09:05:23 UTC]

This has changed from version 1.10, where a plain dependency on boost was defined.

[Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2015-01-17 09:43:01 UTC]

yes, it requires boost[nls].

[Comment 2 Tolga Dalman 2015-01-17 10:29:37 UTC]

In that case I cannot agree with your resolution.
Either the dependency on boost[nls] is wrong, or wesnoth[-nls] makes no sense.
Hence, the bug is still valid, IMHO.


[ebuild   R    ] dev-libs/boost-1.56.0-r1:0/1.56.0  USE="nls* threads -context -debug -doc -icu -mpi -python -static-libs -tools" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3 -python3_4" 0 KiB
[ebuild     U  ] games-strategy/wesnoth-1.12 [1.10.7] USE="dbus -dedicated -doc -fribidi% -nls -server" 376,396 KiB

[Comment 3 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2015-01-17 10:39:24 UTC]

nls controls the install of the language files.  To build it still needs boost[nls].

[Comment 4 Tolga Dalman 2015-01-17 10:54:57 UTC]

I understand that and I can certainly follow your position as wesnoth package maintainer. src/gettext_boost.cpp unconditionally includes boost/locale.hpp. This dependency is also documented in the INSTALL file.

Still it is awkward from my perspective. From a high level view, this is basically the interaction with Gentoo:

  User: Please install wesnoth without nls.
  Gentoo: Ack, will do. You still need to enable nls for a dependent package.

I have nls globally disabled, hence, this requirement feels plain wrong to me.

[Comment 5 Tolga Dalman 2015-01-17 11:14:37 UTC]

I filed a bug report at upstream. I propose to keep this bug open as long as it is open there.

[Comment 6 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2015-03-26 14:33:28 UTC]

*** Bug 544552 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***