195758 – net-im/bitlbee-1.1 useless ldap flag

Bug 195758 - net-im/bitlbee-1.1 useless ldap flag

Summary: net-im/bitlbee-1.1 useless ldap flag

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Cédric Krier

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Depends on:	134202
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Reported:	2007-10-13 20:35 UTC by Patrizio Bassi
Modified:	2007-12-13 20:49 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Patrizio Bassi 2007-10-13 20:35:22 UTC

i cannot understand why, if a feature is known to be broken, it's exported as use flag.

why not disabling by default and offer the use flag when it's fixed?
now it's just making the ebuild to fail and force used to disable it manually per package rule.

 * Note: Support for all IM protocols are controlled by use flags.
 *       Make sure you've enabled the flags you want.
 *
 *
 * LDAP support is a work in progress
 * and does NOT work AT ALL right now.
 *
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking bitlbee-1.1dev.tar.gz to /mnt/Dati/Gentoo/tmp/portage/net-im/bitlbee-1.1/work
>>> Source unpacked.
>>> Compiling source in /mnt/Dati/Gentoo/tmp/portage/net-im/bitlbee-1.1/work/bitlbee-1.1dev ...
BitlBee configure

LDAP support is a work in progress and does NOT work AT ALL right now.

 *
 * ERROR: net-im/bitlbee-1.1 failed.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-10-13 22:12:36 UTC

Well, so remove it from your USE flags if you dislike this.

Comment 2 Bo Ørsted Andresen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-11-02 23:14:02 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Well, so remove it from your USE flags if you dislike this.

It's really amazing that you can't manage to reassign a stupid bug like this to it's maintainer...

Comment 3 Patrizio Bassi 2007-11-03 10:34:35 UTC

don't be inpolite!

...howerver i really think that providing a USE flag that will end with a die() on all condition is simply absurd.

i continue to think that it's better to disable use flag until we can switch ldap support on/off

Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-11-03 10:39:28 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> ...howerver i really think that providing a USE flag that will end with a die()
> on all condition is simply absurd.

Sigh, there's no die on USE=ldap anywhere in the ebuild...

Comment 5 Patrizio Bassi 2007-11-03 10:44:35 UTC

you're right, it's in the configure

./configure --ldap=1
BitlBee configure

LDAP support is a work in progress and does NOT work AT ALL right now.

root@blight bitlbee-1.1dev # ./configure --ldap=auto
BitlBee configure

LDAP support is a work in progress and does NOT work AT ALL right now.

root@blight bitlbee-1.1dev # ./configure --ldap=0
BitlBee configure

Architecture: Linux

Configuration done:
  Debugging disabled.
  Binary stripping enabled.
  Using event handler: glib
  Using SSL library: gnutls
  Building with these storage backends: text xml
  Building with these protocols: msn jabber oscar yahoo

same if you don't pass ldap switch.
ebuild should remove the ldap switch

Comment 6 Patrizio Bassi 2007-12-09 21:21:36 UTC

...no news...

Comment 7 Cédric Krier gentoo-dev

2007-12-13 20:49:52 UTC

Fix in cvs