Bug 42661 – yelp dependency on =gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-2* is incorrect

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description Joel Martin (RETIRED) 2004-02-23 15:28:02 UTC]

During yelp's configure, it complained stating that yelp required
libgtkhtml >= 2.1.2.

I don't have exact output because I upgraded libgtkhtml and the error scrolled
off the screen and don't have an ebuild for older than 2.1.2 anymore to 
reproduce it easily.

This is a one line change to yelp 2.4.2 ebuild:
RDEPEND =gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-2* 
becomes >=gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-2.1.2

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Yi Quang (RETIRED) 2004-02-23 15:53:53 UTC]

Is this a problem since the oldest libgtkhtml package is 2.2.1 in portage? If i remember correctly ebuilds are supposed to try and always use major revisions right?

[Comment 2 Spider (RETIRED) 2004-02-23 16:03:51 UTC]

theres an interesting headache here as you cant do the >= since it won't build against libgtkhtml 3.x series....

[Comment 3 Spider (RETIRED) 2004-02-23 16:04:27 UTC]

theres an interesting headache here as you cant do the >= since it won't build against libgtkhtml 3.x series....


now where the heck are those SLOT dependencies we've wanted for two years?

[Comment 4 Joel Martin (RETIRED) 2004-02-23 17:28:27 UTC]

Here is the reason why I ran into this. I have stopped using gnome and removed
"gnome" from my world file so my gnome stuff is becoming old and out of date,
however I still had gnome in my USE flags. I got this error when upgrading
xscreensaver. I got around the problem by using "-gnome". If I upgraded all my
gnome packages this would go away too, but I really don't care to.

As the original submitter I'm comfortable with just closing this.

[Comment 5 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2004-02-24 00:47:21 UTC]

dunno, but its not something that is in our hands. i'll close this as CANTFIX for now.

[Comment 6 foser (RETIRED) 2004-02-24 02:11:23 UTC]

'the 'fix' gtkhtml deps' in the ChangeLog on bumping to 2.4.0 refers to this problem. Guess i should write more descriptive stuff. And yes the oldest libgtkhtml in the tree at that time was 2.2.x or something, but theoretically there still could be trouble with users on systems not updated for a long time.