Bug 492562 – USE=taglib app-emacs/bongo depends on dev-ruby/ruby-taglib which is ruby18-only

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[Description Manuel Rüger (RETIRED) 2013-11-26 02:55:27 UTC]

dev-lang/ruby:1.8 will be masked within a week.

Since ruby support looks optional for you package please either fix the bindings or remove the ruby support before that time.


Please consider to drop IUSE=taglib and dependency on dev-ruby/ruby-taglib

[Comment 1 Ulrich Müller 2013-11-26 07:26:48 UTC]

(In reply to Manuel Rüger from comment #0)
> Since ruby support looks optional for you package please either fix the
> bindings

How? Looks like dev-ruby/ruby-taglib should be updated.

> or remove the ruby support before that time.

This would mean to remove a perfectly working feature from the package.

[Comment 2 Hans de Graaff 2013-11-26 10:54:10 UTC]

(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #1)
> (In reply to Manuel Rüger from comment #0)
> > Since ruby support looks optional for you package please either fix the
> > bindings
> 
> How? Looks like dev-ruby/ruby-taglib should be updated.

Agreed. I had another look at this but the code is really not compatible with ruby 1.9 and newer. Upstream should have released a new, compatible, version already since the ruby 1.8 deprecation has been known for quite some time.

> 
> > or remove the ruby support before that time.
> 
> This would mean to remove a perfectly working feature from the package.

Yes, unfortunate. But it will not be working perfectly in the future because ruby 1.8 support has officially stopped since this summer and there are now open security bugs for it.

http://robinst.github.io/taglib-ruby/ looks to be a different package aiming at the same goal. I'm not sure if it would be compatible with bongo.

[Comment 3 Hans de Graaff 2013-11-26 20:01:21 UTC]

(In reply to Hans de Graaff from comment #2)

> http://robinst.github.io/taglib-ruby/ looks to be a different package aiming
> at the same goal. I'm not sure if it would be compatible with bongo.

It isn't.

[0.00%] Processing `/home/graaff/Media/Music/talk_talk/spirit_of_eden/'...tree-from-tags.rb:213:in `rescue in block in <main>': uninitialized constant TagLib::BadFile (NameError)
	from tree-from-tags.rb:230:in `block in <main>'
	from /usr/lib64/ruby/1.9.1/find.rb:41:in `block in find'
	from /usr/lib64/ruby/1.9.1/find.rb:40:in `catch'
	from /usr/lib64/ruby/1.9.1/find.rb:40:in `find'
	from tree-from-tags.rb:155:in `<main>'

I've filed an upstream bug to get this fixed, hopefully in time.

[Comment 4 Manuel Rüger (RETIRED) 2014-03-07 00:43:01 UTC]

dev-ruby/ruby-taglib will be pmasked in a week due to ruby18 removal.

I'm going to add a package.use.mask entry for app-emacs/bongo taglib then. 

Please remove the USE-Flag and clean up the pmask afterwards.

[Comment 5 Ulrich Müller 2014-03-07 07:34:40 UTC]

taglib USE flag removed.

Resolving as UPSTREAM, see URL for upstream bug report.