[gentoo-user] What's happening to dev-cpp/abseil-cpp?

[Peter Humphrey]

Hello list,

This package[1] has see-sawed up and down several times recently, causing
recompilation of libreoffice each time. What's going on?

$ genlop libreoffice
* acct-group/libreoffice

Sat Sep 2 00:35:00 2023 >>> app-office/libreoffice-7.5.5.2
Sat Sep 2 12:45:06 2023 >>> app-office/libreoffice-7.5.5.2
Sun Sep 3 17:22:11 2023 >>> app-office/libreoffice-7.5.5.2
Mon Oct 9 17:30:59 2023 >>> app-office/libreoffice-7.5.5.2
Mon Oct 16 13:18:07 2023 >>> app-office/libreoffice-7.5.5.2
Wed Oct 18 13:35:13 2023 >>> app-office/libreoffice-7.5.5.2
Thu Oct 19 13:21:58 2023 >>> app-office/libreoffice-7.5.5.2

1. dev-cpp/abseil-cpp (20230125.2(0/20230125){xpak:2}): Abseil Common
Libraries (C++), LTS Branch

[tastytea]

Post by Peter Humphrey
Hello list,
This package[1] has see-sawed up and down several times recently,
causing recompilation of libreoffice each time. What's going on?
$ genlop libreoffice
* acct-group/libreoffice
Sat Sep 2 00:35:00 2023 >>> app-office/libreoffice-7.5.5.2
Sat Sep 2 12:45:06 2023 >>> app-office/libreoffice-7.5.5.2
Sun Sep 3 17:22:11 2023 >>> app-office/libreoffice-7.5.5.2
Mon Oct 9 17:30:59 2023 >>> app-office/libreoffice-7.5.5.2
Mon Oct 16 13:18:07 2023 >>> app-office/libreoffice-7.5.5.2
Wed Oct 18 13:35:13 2023 >>> app-office/libreoffice-7.5.5.2
Thu Oct 19 13:21:58 2023 >>> app-office/libreoffice-7.5.5.2
1. dev-cpp/abseil-cpp (20230125.2(0/20230125){xpak:2}): Abseil
Common Libraries (C++), LTS Branch

are you sure it's all because of dev-cpp/abseil-cpp? according to the
log[1] it was prematurely stabilized a few days ago and reverted
2023-10-17. that could explain 2 of the last 3 app-office/libreoffice
rebuilds. however, i don't see anything matching the other rebuilds. i
haven't checked masks though, maybe some versions of abseil were masked
for a while?

kind regards, tastytea

[1] <https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/log/dev-cpp/abseil-cpp>