[needs-packaging] Apache Thrift

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This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

It's been more than two years—is there a chance this will be added soon? How can we help?

I see that libthrift-java is being included in Ubuntu Trusty for ppc64el and may be more, but no thrift/fb303 C++ libraries is included.

I saw a year old ubuntu precise link where some work has been done https://launchpad.net/~wnoronha/+archive/thrift/+build/4273483 , but not sure if it's been included in i386 ubuntu release.

Want to know is their any plan to provide C++ libraries for thrift/fb303 to Ubuntu Trusty for ppc64le and some other platforms for future releases?

Noting down some of the rpm based distributions which provide both C++ & java libraries.

http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/fedora/updates/19/ppc64/thrift-0.9.1-9.fc19.ppc64.html
http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/fedora/updates/19/ppc64/fb303-0.9.1-9.fc19.ppc64.html

http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/fedora/updates/19/ppc64/libthrift-java-0.9.1-9.fc19.noarch.html
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/updates/19/ppc/fb303-java-0.9.1-9.fc19.noarch.html

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Thanks for reporting.

I found that Debian has experimental packages for thrift, see https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/thrift for more details, but they don't seem to have made their way into Debian proper nor Ubuntu yet.

Hi,

Are there any news when the newer thrift-compiler versions (0.11.0) will be available in Ubuntu.
In Debian Buster thrift-compiler v0.11.0 is available now.

What is needed to make it available in Ubuntu?

Thanks!

Hi Gyorgy

I wasn't aware that thrift had made its way from experimental into Debian unstable (sid). Since it landed there, it was automatically synced to Ubuntu Disco (the current development release). However, it failed to build so someone will need to look into that https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thrift/0.11.0-3

The Debian package is failing to build on Ubuntu with 1 test failure that I don't yet grok. From the amd64 build logs:

make check-TESTS
make[8]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/lib/c_glib/test'
/testserialization/StructReadWriteLengthShouldEqual:
(/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/lib/c_glib/test/.libs/testserialization:27121): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 01:23:52.326: cannot register existing type 'ThriftTransport'
/bin/bash: line 5: 27121 Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped) ${dir}$tst
FAIL: testserialization

I'm wondering if this might a difference in the compiler flags used between Ubuntu in Debian, but that's just a guess at this point. I'll take a look, but it might not be until after the Debian Buster freeze.

Looks like a couple of extra fixes were needed for it to build on Ubuntu, but thrift is now available in the upcoming Ubuntu Eoan https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thrift/0.11.0-4ubuntu2