[HADOOP-19165] Explore dropping protobuf 2.5.0 from the distro

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.5.0
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: Any build against the hbase2 profile or a hadoop release which doesn't support hbase1 as a back end for the timelines service no longer includes protobuf 2.5
• Assignee: Ayush Saxena
• Reporter: Ayush Saxena
• Created: 07/May/24 17:32
• Updated: 24/Sep/24 15:29
• Resolved: 24/Sep/24 15:29

Description

explore if protobuf-2.5.0 can be dropped from distro, it is a transitive dependency from HBase, but HBase doesn't use it in the code.

Check if it is the only one pulling it into the distro & will something break if we exclude that, if none lets get rid of it

Issue Links

• relates to: HADOOP-18487 Make protobuf 2.5 an optional runtime dependency.
• relates to: HADOOP-19107 Drop support for HBase v1 timeline service & upgrade HBase v2
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #7051