Bug 93719 – commons-digester depends on outdated version of commons-beanutils

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Kendric Beachey 2005-05-23 12:15:48 UTC]

The ebuild for dev-java/commons-digester requires version 1.6 of
commons-beanutils.  Since commons-beanutils has reached version 1.7.0, it is no
longer possible to emerge commons-digester without editing the ebuild.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge commons-beanutils (at the moment this picks up version 1.7.0)
2. emerge commons-digester
3. emerge fails because it ONLY looks for version 1.6 of beanutils.

Actual Results:  
After this failed a few times I edited the commons-digester ebuild to look for
version 1.7 instead (although I didn't attempt to make it be "1.7 or greater"
since I knew the next sync would wipe this out).  After this, the emerge
completed just fine.

Expected Results:  
The ebuild should have asked for version 1.6 or greater on commons-beanutils,
not version 1.6 only.

[Comment 1 Jan Brinkmann (RETIRED) 2005-05-23 12:18:35 UTC]

this intended, since beanutils is slotted and the version 1.6 as well as 1.7 are
not fully api compatible

[Comment 2 Kendric Beachey 2005-05-23 12:48:25 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> this intended, since beanutils is slotted and the version 1.6 as well as 1.7 
> are not fully api compatible

So what was I supposed to do instead?  The output from the failed ebuild just
makes it look like it's broken.