Bug 935700 – sci-geosciences/qgis: is mandatory dep on sci-geosciences/gpsbabel bogus?

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: CONFIRMED ---

[Description Sam James 2024-07-07 06:40:42 UTC]

From what I can see, gpsbabel is an optional plugin for qgis and isn't strictly necessary.

If so, it should likely be an optfeature.

(Particularly interested in this given gpsbabel depends on qtwebengine.)

See e.g. https://docs.qgis.org/3.34/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_gps/plugins_gps.html#loading-to-or-from-a-device.

Am I missing something?

[Comment 1 Andreas Sturmlechner 2024-09-02 08:48:22 UTC]

Seems like it had that dependency since before git migration, and I don't look further than that.

[Comment 2 Andreas Sturmlechner 2024-09-02 08:48:54 UTC]

At least Arch Linux are listing it as optional.

[Comment 3 Andreas Sturmlechner 2024-09-02 09:07:43 UTC]

... although greping for gpsbabel in sources has many hits.

[Comment 4 Andreas Sturmlechner 2024-09-14 12:46:04 UTC]

In Fedora's package it is listed as "required".

[Comment 5 Larry the Git Cow 2024-09-14 19:56:03 UTC]

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=552966ff7dbf03583387e1203afddc140200eb81

commit 552966ff7dbf03583387e1203afddc140200eb81
Author:     Andreas Sturmlechner <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2024-09-14 10:43:30 +0000
Commit:     Andreas Sturmlechner <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2024-09-14 19:55:52 +0000

    sci-geosciences/qgis: unkeyword 3.28.10 for ~x86
    
    Depends on sci-geosciences/gpsbabel, which lost its ~x86 keyword for
    unconditional dev-qt/qtwebengine dependency.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/935700
    Signed-off-by: Andreas Sturmlechner <[e-mail]>

 sci-geosciences/qgis/qgis-3.28.10.ebuild | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)