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FS#69386 - ANTLR4 package versions mismatched

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Luka Žaja (Venom) - Wednesday, 20 January 2021, 17:46 GMT
Last edited by Christian Hesse (eworm) - Thursday, 21 January 2021, 07:31 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Christian Hesse (eworm)
Konstantin Gizdov (kgizdov)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
The main, antlr4, package is orphaned and stuck at version 4.8.1 while its Python runtime package has been recently updated to version 4.9.1. The C++ runtime is matched and isn't problematic.

This means that the lexer and parser generation cannot be automated during build-time of any given dependent package (one that is targeting Python), i.e. antlr4 cannot be declared as a make dependency as there might be breakage during runtime (warnings are always issued by the generated "checkVersion" method - both in the lexer as well as the parser), once the dependent package is built and subsequently run.

More info (my post) in the official subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/l0szby/antlr4_package_versions_mismatched/

This is NOT a problem of a package being outdated but solely a problem of versions being mismatched which is not the case upstream. These packages all come from the same upstream source (they're a part of the same ecosystem, so to speak) and their versions should always be synchronized, imho. They aren't even present in the same repositories - antlr4 is in Extra, runtimes are in Community (also different maintainers, in case of the Python runtime).

Additional info:
* antlr4 4.8.1
* config and/or log files etc.
* link to upstream bug report, if any

Steps to reproduce:
None to speak of, everything is right there in the repositories.
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Closed by  Christian Hesse (eworm)
Thursday, 21 January 2021, 07:31 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  updated
Comment by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Wednesday, 20 January 2021, 17:55 GMT
Moved to community. eworm, kgizdov: please either of you adopt it and keep it in sync.
Comment by Christian Hesse (eworm) - Thursday, 21 January 2021, 07:31 GMT
Adopted and updated. Everybody is welcome to co-maintain, though...

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