[Buildroot] [PATCH] protobuf: bump to 2.6.1

[Steven Noonan]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Dear Steven Noonan,

You can just call me "Steven"...

>
> On Wed,  4 Nov 2015 00:37:21 -0800, Steven Noonan wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven at uplinklabs.net>
>> ---
>>  package/protobuf/protobuf.hash | 2 ++
>>  package/protobuf/protobuf.mk   | 2 +-
>>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>  create mode 100644 package/protobuf/protobuf.hash
>
> This is breaking the build of python-protobuf:
> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/16e/16e8c41f3b6627ecee96fcf5ab3b22f1b7513ba4/build-end.log.
>
> The problem is that python-protobuf now has some additional
> dependencies, which setuptools tries to download automatically. You
> probably haven't seen this on your machine because it automatically
> downloads the needed dependencies. It appears on the autobuilders
> because https:// downloads fail.

I just looked at this. Nasty. These "dependencies" are only needed at
'setup.py build' time, and not runtime. I have trouble believing it
really needs these at all. Might be able to simply gut the build-time
dependencies.

> This should be fixed by:
>
>  1/ Ensuring that setuptools does not download dependencies
>     automatically
>
>  2/ Packaging the appropriate python-protobuf dependencies.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas
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