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Description of problem: I tried to upgrade eclipse-epp-logging and it tries to pull 33 new dependencies. Is it really required or it is just a packaging bug? If some dependencies are optional than you can use weak dependencies Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): eclipse-epp-logging-2.0.3-2.fc25 How reproducible: Deterministic Steps to Reproduce: 1. //ensure you have installed older version of eclipse-epp-logging rpm -q eclipse-epp-logging 2. // try to upgrade package from updates testing dnf update --enablerepo=updates-testing eclipse-epp-logging Actual results: sh# dnf update --enablerepo=updates-testing eclipse-epp-logging Last metadata expiration check: 0:11:23 ago on Tue Jan 17 07:38:22 2017. Dependencies resolved. ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Installing: antlr3-java noarch 1:3.5.2-11.fc25 fedora 173 k apache-commons-beanutils noarch 1.9.2-5.fc24 fedora 244 k apache-commons-collections noarch 3.2.2-3.fc25 fedora 534 k apache-commons-compress noarch 1.12-1.fc25 fedora 404 k apache-commons-digester noarch 2.1-7.fc25 fedora 191 k apache-commons-discovery noarch 2:0.5-16.fc25 fedora 88 k axis noarch 1.4-29.fc25 fedora 11 M bea-stax noarch 1.2.0-12.fc24 fedora 182 k bea-stax-api noarch 1.2.0-12.fc24 fedora 36 k beust-jcommander noarch 1.47-3.fc25 fedora 71 k bsh noarch 1.3.0-36.fc25 updates 494 k hawtjni-runtime noarch 1.10-6.fc24 fedora 38 k hppc noarch 0.7.1-3.fc24 fedora 1.3 M httpcomponents-client-cache noarch 4.5.2-4.fc25 fedora 157 k jackson-core noarch 2.7.6-1.fc25 fedora 252 k jansi noarch 1.11-10.fc24 fedora 49 k jansi-native x86_64 1.5-10.fc24 fedora 51 k jline noarch 2.13-6.fc25 fedora 155 k log4j12 noarch 1.2.17-13.fc25 fedora 457 k lucene4 noarch 4.10.4-7.fc25 updates-testing 20 M morfologik-stemming noarch 2.0.1-4.fc25 fedora 2.0 M nekohtml noarch 1.9.22-2.fc24 fedora 160 k randomizedtesting noarch 2.3.1-2.fc24 fedora 14 k randomizedtesting-junit4-ant noarch 2.3.1-2.fc24 fedora 212 k randomizedtesting-runner noarch 2.3.1-2.fc24 fedora 209 k rhino noarch 1.7.7.1-1.fc25 fedora 1.1 M simple-xml noarch 2.7.1-8.fc24 fedora 377 k snowball-java noarch 0-0.7.20130902.fc24 fedora 101 k uima-addons noarch 2.3.1-7.fc24 fedora 5.7 M uimaj noarch 2.8.1-3.fc25 fedora 2.5 M wsdl4j noarch 1.6.3-8.fc24 fedora 190 k xmlbeans noarch 2.6.0-12.fc25 fedora 2.4 M xpp3 noarch 1.1.4-11.c.fc25 fedora 329 k Upgrading: eclipse-epp-logging noarch 2.0.3-2.fc25 updates-testing 522 k Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 33 Packages Upgrade 1 Package Total download size: 51 M Expected results: Just required packages are installed (if any) Additional info: Disabling weak dependencies did not help. dnf update --enablerepo=updates-testing --setopt=install_weak_deps=false eclipse-epp-logging
This is because eclipse-epp-logging had to be moved to lucene 4 from lucene 5 to ensure that it functions correctly. These additional deps are pulled in by lucene4 as an (unfortunate) consequence. This is not a epp-logging bug (since moving to lucene4 is an intentional, but temporary measure until Eclipse upstream moves to newer lucene).
Could you explain why lucene was not required in 2.0.3-1 and is required in minor release update 2.0.3-2? If it was not strictly required in 2.0.3-1 could it be changed to weak dependency? http://rpm.org/user_doc/dependencies.html#weak-dependencies. And I can see lucene-upgrade.patch even in 2.0.3-1.
(In reply to Lukas Slebodnik from comment #2) > Could you explain why lucene was not required in 2.0.3-1 and is required in > minor release update 2.0.3-2? > > If it was not strictly required in 2.0.3-1 could it be changed to weak > dependency? http://rpm.org/user_doc/dependencies.html#weak-dependencies. > > And I can see lucene-upgrade.patch even in 2.0.3-1. With version 2.0.3-1 you will likely find your workspace logs littered with "could not read lucene index" errors. This is because epp-logging downloads lucene 3 indexes from the internet, but lucene 5 cannot read them. Lucene 4 is able to correctly read these indexes. I moved epp-logging from lucene 5 to lucene 4 to fix this bug. Lucene is not an optional dependency, I cannot make it a weak dep. IMO the reported problem is not a bug with epp-logging, it would be more appropriate to file a bug with lucene 4 to split it up into subpackages if you want to reduce the dependency count.
Thank you for detailed explanation.