Bug 221555

Summary:	mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird: suspect runtime-depend on sys-devel/autoconf
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	mips
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	221421

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-05-11 15:05:47 UTC

Your package is runtime-depending on sys-devel/autoconf standing to http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/misc/rindex/sys-devel/autoconf . sys-devel/autoconf is a tool used almost always at build-time, (it's either a build system or a generator - sorry this is a generic template I start with so I can't tell you right away which one). This means that it should only be depended at build-time.

Please correct your ebuild or document why it is used as a runtime-dependency so that it will not be suspected again.

Thanks,
Diego

Comment 1 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-05-12 18:52:43 UTC

Thats in the 1.5.0.8 ebuild, which is really older, blame mips for having it, i'm not going to fix it when it should be removed.

Comment 2 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-05-12 19:05:51 UTC

Then let's ask mips if it can be removed.

Comment 3 Ryan Hill (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-05-17 01:54:38 UTC

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390604

2.0 doesn't work on mips and i don't see that changing soon.  Redhatter, what do you think?

Comment 4 Stuart Longland (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-05-17 10:42:35 UTC

I'm aware of Thunderbird being rather behind on MIPS.

The last version marked stable, is the only version known to work without issues on big-endian MIPS.  Later versions, including the 2.0-series, break when talking to IMAP servers.

The problem does not exist on little-endian MIPS.  I've been able to use Thunderbird 2.0 on the Loongson boxes without issues -- the problem only appears when using big-endian systems such as the SGI systems we traditionally support.

I've asked the Mozilla people for advice in bug 390604 ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390604 )... I haven't had the time to chase it further -- as my university course reaches its conclusion, I'm finding I have less and less time.

Comment 5 Nirbheek Chauhan (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-05-01 20:58:05 UTC

1.5 is now masked in-tree and isn't keyworded for anything but mips. Plus, it probably has bigger problems than a suspected runtime dep on autoconf :p

Closing WONTFIX