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FS#12648 - dependency missing in python

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Baho Utot (baho-utot) - Saturday, 03 January 2009, 01:52 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 19 April 2009, 04:29 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Allan McRae (Allan)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
PKGBUILD for libxcb missing expat dependency

Additional info:
pkkgver=1.1.90.1


Steps to reproduce:
Build without expat installed

Depends should be:
depends=('xcb-proto>=1.2' 'libxdmcp' 'libxau' 'expat')
   PKGBUILD.patch (0.4 KiB)
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Sunday, 19 April 2009, 04:29 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  python-2.6.2
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 03 January 2009, 12:44 GMT
The libxcb sources don't have any reference to expat, so the resulting binary can't depend on expat.

The reason why libxcb doesn't build without expat is because the elementtree module inside python needs expat. Python has no dependencies or optdepends on expat.
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 03 January 2009, 14:28 GMT
  • Field changed: Summary (dependency missing in libxcb → dependency missing in python)
oops... I patched python to use the system expat but forgot to add it as a dep...
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Friday, 13 March 2009, 04:22 GMT
Pushed to SVN trunk. Should get fixed with upcoming readline rebuild.

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