[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/python-protobuf: eliminate unneeded build-time dependencies

[Steven Noonan]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Steven Noonan <steven at uplinklabs.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
>> Steven,
>>
>> On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 14:07:36 -0800, Steven Noonan wrote:
>>
>>> Upstream would make use of the lines we're removing. It's intended for
>>> running their unit tests, which we don't use when building it.
>>
>> Can we find a way that is upstreamable, like some setup.py option or
>> environment variable to disable the build/installation of unit tests?
>>
>
> Maybe, I'll think about how it could be done.

I investigated upstream's master branch state before doing too much
and found this:

https://github.com/google/protobuf/commit/9f42f5f4a423b923f7b07ae8c5e8db4943df49c6

(It doesn't apply to 2.6.1, but this does show that protobuf 3.x will
not have the unneeded dependency.)

So the upstream work has already been done.