Hi,
actually, this bug is a bit different from what you've written.
opensync-plugin-moto is written in python, having a private library
motosync which is installed to /usr/lib/opensync/python-plugins.
As this dir is not in the default python path, the follwoing code in
mototool gets executed (the except part):
try:
import motosync
except ImportError:
# motosync wasn't in our standard import path
# try looking in the opensync python plugin dir for it
child = popen2.Popen3('pkg-config opensync-1.0 --variable=libdir')
libdir = child.fromchild.readline().rstrip('\n')
if child.wait() != 0 or not os.path.isdir(libdir):
sys.stderr.write("Error: couldn't locate OpenSync library directory\n")
sys.exit(1)
sys.path.append(os.path.join(libdir, 'opensync', 'python-plugins'))
import motosync
Of course, when libopensync0-dev isn't installed,
`pkg-config opensync-1.0 --variable=libdir` fails and you get this nice error.
For quick-fixing this issue, I'd patch mototool to not call pkg-config
(which is neither in its depends btw!) but set libdir to /usr/lib (which allways
will be the output of pkg-config anyway).
The propper fix would be to use python-support or similar, but I do not know
enough
about this and the change would be too big for a quick rc-fix.
Attached you'll find a quick-quick-fix for the issue.
(I've never worked with cdbs and simple-patchsys.)
Regards
Evgeni
diff -u libopensync-plugin-moto-0.22/debian/changelog libopensync-plugin-moto-0.22/debian/changelog
--- libopensync-plugin-moto-0.22/debian/changelog
+++ libopensync-plugin-moto-0.22/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+libopensync-plugin-moto (0.22-1.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Don't call pkg-config to find out, that Debian ships its libs in
+ /usr/lib. (Closes: #504866)
+
+ -- Evgeni Golov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:30:27 +0100
+
libopensync-plugin-moto (0.22-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release.
only in patch2:
unchanged:
--- libopensync-plugin-moto-0.22.orig/mototool
+++ libopensync-plugin-moto-0.22/mototool
@@ -12,11 +12,8 @@
except ImportError:
# motosync wasn't in our standard import path
# try looking in the opensync python plugin dir for it
- child = popen2.Popen3('pkg-config opensync-1.0 --variable=libdir')
- libdir = child.fromchild.readline().rstrip('\n')
- if child.wait() != 0 or not os.path.isdir(libdir):
- sys.stderr.write("Error: couldn't locate OpenSync library directory\n")
- sys.exit(1)
+ # hardcode libdir to /usr/lib as a workaround for #504866
+ libdir = '/usr/lib'
sys.path.append(os.path.join(libdir, 'opensync', 'python-plugins'))
import motosync
