Bug 748522 - dejavu-fonts fails to build with Perl-5.14.1-187
Summary: dejavu-fonts fails to build with Perl-5.14.1-187
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dejavu-fonts
Version: 16
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nicolas Mailhot
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On: 757290
Blocks: 756963
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-10-24 17:07 UTC by Jeremiah
Modified: 2013-02-14 06:00 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-02-14 02:55:32 UTC
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Description Jeremiah 2011-10-24 17:07:41 UTC
Description of problem:
The Dejavu-fonts fail to meet buildrequires to compile due to missing file:

/usr/share/perl5/unicore/UnicodeData.txt

This file was offered by Perl in previous releases but seems to be missing in Perl 5.14

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.33

How reproducible:
Try and rebuild dejavu-fonts with Perl version 5.14.1-187


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure your build environment has Perl version 5.14.1-187 
2. try and build dejavu-fonts from src rpm
3. watch it complain about missing buildrequires even though Perl is installed
  
Actual results:
BuildRequires not met, failed build

Expected results:
Perl should provide missing file again or BuildRequires should be changes in spec file for dejavu-fonts

Additional info:

Comment 1 Nicolas Mailhot 2011-10-25 20:04:00 UTC
Drat, did the perl guys move the file elsewhere? Because I don't relish the thought of packaging it separately (I know where the unicode consortium publishes it, but the legal aspects are unpleasant)

Comment 2 Paul Flo Williams 2011-11-16 12:33:13 UTC
Perl 5.14 has removed some files from .../unicore/ in an effort to trim it (according to git logs) from 17M to 7M. Blocks.txt has survived, but UnicodeData.txt is no longer shipped.

Other existing providers of UnicodeData.txt on F16 are:

boost-devel
mingw32-boost
moodle

Unfortunately, none of these also contain Blocks.txt.

Comment 3 Paul Flo Williams 2011-11-16 12:46:54 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Because I don't relish the
> thought of packaging it separately (I know where the unicode consortium
> publishes it, but the legal aspects are unpleasant)

I've just taken a look at the Unicode terms of use:

http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html

and the license (Exhibit 1 on that page), which according to this message:

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2009-February/000540.html

is MIT. So, packaging the data could be useful to us?

Comment 4 Nicolas Mailhot 2011-11-17 10:37:39 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Because I don't relish the
> > thought of packaging it separately (I know where the unicode consortium
> > publishes it, but the legal aspects are unpleasant)
> 
> I've just taken a look at the Unicode terms of use:
> 
> http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html
> 
> and the license (Exhibit 1 on that page), which according to this message:
> 
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2009-February/000540.html
> 
> is MIT. 

That's a nice change. IIRC it was not always so (that's why I piggybacked on perl originally)

> So, packaging the data could be useful to us?

Yes. That would help dejavu, but also all the packages that ship unicode definitions, and could be cleaned up to use a central package (that could be synced with unicode releases instead of each package shipping obsolete definitions)

If you feel like doing some resource packaging http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/cmap/CMap+Resources is also duplicated everywhere

Otherwise I'll just package unicode data next time dejavu does a release and I need to rebuild the package

Comment 5 Jens Petersen 2011-11-26 07:11:44 UTC
Ok I packaged Unicode UCD in bug 757290 if anyone wants to help
review it. :)

Comment 6 Jens Petersen 2011-12-06 05:18:59 UTC
Fixed in dejavu-fonts-2.33-2.fc16

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=276334

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