Package: gbirthday Version: 0.6.5-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: [email protected] Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch precise
gbirthday's upstream Makefile installs to /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/. If gbirthday is rebuilt from source using a python package that has dropped Python 2.6 as a supported version, this means that /usr/share/python-support/private/movemodules no longer moves it to /usr/share/pyshared, which means that it ends up not being installed to anywhere in the default interpreter's module path, and is entirely broken as a result. On Ubuntu this also causes a build failure (which seems reasonable given that the resulting package is going to be unusable): https://launchpadlibrarian.net/83133829/buildlog_ubuntu-precise-i386.gbirthday_0.6.5-1_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz Furthermore, gbirthday uses python-support, which is now deprecated (http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2011/06/msg00136.html). How about the following patch? This makes gbirthday a bit more future-proof, fixes the Ubuntu build failure, and updates to dh_python2 in the process. * Always install to /usr/share/pyshared, even if 2.6 is not a supported version. * Convert to dh_python2. diff -Nru gbirthday-0.6.5/debian/control gbirthday-0.6.5/debian/control --- gbirthday-0.6.5/debian/control 2011-09-27 06:42:09.000000000 +0100 +++ gbirthday-0.6.5/debian/control 2011-10-27 13:07:07.000000000 +0100 @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ Priority: extra Maintainer: Rolf Leggewie <[email protected]> DM-Upload-Allowed: yes -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), python-nose, python-support, python-coverage, python-gtk2, intltool -XS-Python-Version: >= 2.6 +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), python (>= 2.6.6-3~), python-nose, python-coverage, python-gtk2, intltool +X-Python-Version: >= 2.6 Standards-Version: 3.9.2 Homepage: http://gbirthday.sf.net/ Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/gbirthday.git @@ -16,7 +17,6 @@ Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, evolution-data-server, python, python-gtk2 (>= 2.10), ${python:Depends} Recommends: python-evolution -XB-Python-Version: ${python:Versions} Description: birthday reminder applet GBirthday is an applet to help you remember your friends' and contacts' birthdays. It uses the notifcation area for alerts. Data can be stored diff -Nru gbirthday-0.6.5/debian/rules gbirthday-0.6.5/debian/rules --- gbirthday-0.6.5/debian/rules 2011-09-26 02:35:31.000000000 +0100 +++ gbirthday-0.6.5/debian/rules 2011-10-27 13:05:20.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ #!/usr/bin/make -f %: - dh $@ + dh $@ --with python2 + +override_dh_auto_install: + dh_auto_install -- sitelib=/usr/share/pyshared Thanks, -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
