Unable to provide WORKSPACE dependencies when protobuf is depended on in Bazel

[perezd]

I'm trying to address this issue in another repo: google/bazel-common#51
Currently I'm blocked because I'm unable to provide the necessary dependency on //external:error_prone_annotations defined in WORKSPACE here:
https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/WORKSPACE#L74

FWIW, Bazel recommends to avoid bind:
https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/external.html#best-practices

This is might be especially worth noting in a Google open source project.

Any suggestions on how provide that dependency from bazel-common? Ironically, we are already loading the annotations over there, I just need a way to provide them to com_google_protobuf when it builds protobuf_java_util

[ghost]

Sorry for the late reply, looking into this now.

[ghost]

@perezd, would you mind pointing me to a repo where I can easily reproduce this?

[perezd]

This may have been a misunderstanding, I found in the 3.7.x branch that this does work as expected.

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[ghost]

ok. I will close this issue, then.