Dependencies for gdesklets are no longer fulfilled

I add a English version of this error message here.

 sudo apt-get install gdesklets
[sudo] password for mattias:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gdesklets: Depends: python (< 2.6) but 2.6.1-0ubuntu3 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

I confirm this issue in Jaunty Alpha5.... if I try to install gdesklets almost all of the packages it's marked to eliminate.
Also if we take a look... the versions of gdesklets and gdesklets-data respectively are not equal.

My wife aren't happy with this.

Quick scan of dependencies (configure.in) and Changelog shows there's no need for python to be (< 2.6). Someone should try to install the recent version of desklets from source on Jaunty to check if it works fine. If something's wrong log a defect for gdesklets to fix problems with python 2.6.

> Also if we take a look... the versions of gdesklets and gdesklets-data respectively are not equal.

gdesklets-data is a mess and not officially supported. There are a lot of non-working desklets in there and we advise everyone - more or less - NOT to use it (as long as you are not knowing what you are dealing with ;) ).

gDesklets I compiled from source code, compiled fine without any errors, but when run it gives this error, exactly on python.
The error is:

[code ]==========================================================[03/08/09-12:18:46]===
=== Unhandled error! Something bad and unexpected happened. ===

[EXC]_new_imp() takes at most 4 arguments (5 given)
in /usr/local/bin/gdesklets: line 3 <module>
in /usr/local/lib/gdesklets/main/__init__.py: line 52 <module>
in /usr/local/lib/gdesklets/utils/i18n.py: line 23 Translator
in /usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py: line 493 translation
in /usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py: line 180 __init__
in /usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py: line 315 _parse
in /usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py: line 100 c2py
[EXC]/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py

[---] 95 # Replace some C operators by their Python equivalents
[---] 96 plural = plural.replace('&&', ' and ')
[---] 97 plural = plural.replace('||', ' or ')
[---] 98
[---] 99 expr = re.compile(r'\!([^=])')
[ERR]> 100 plural = expr.sub(' not \\1', plural)
[---] 101
[---] 102 # Regular expression and replacement function used to transform
[---] 103 # "a?b:c" to "test(a,b,c)".
[---] 104 expr = re.compile(r'(.*?)\?(.*?):(.*)')
[---] 105 def repl(x):
[---] 106 return "test(%s, %s, %s)" % (x.group(1), x.group(2),[/code]

I do not know why, apparently there are problems with python 2.6.
Another thing I did was comment out the error and not run ... the exit:

[code]Starting the server ... gDesklets
Connecting to server [#]
================================================== ========[ 03/08/09-12: 29:43] ===
Could not import tiling module!

Unable to connect to server: time spent
The event log may help you solve the problem.[/code]

I Don't do nothing more

I've added autotools.mk and it seems to do the trick:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23747182/buildlog_ubuntu-jaunty-amd64.gdesklets_0.36-5ubuntu1_FULLYBUILT.txt.gz
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23747084/buildlog_ubuntu-jaunty-lpia.gdesklets_0.36-5ubuntu1_FULLYBUILT.txt.gz

Attached the debdiff :)

er.. scratch that last comment
I've tried a simple rebuild of gdesklets_0.36-5 and I think that's all it needs (I'll keep the patch in case I'm wrong).

Ignore the patches please.
Although gdesklets builds fine, I'm getting an error while running it and seems connected to this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdesklets/+bug/89585

ok, so this is blocked by this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/83922

This bug was fixed in the package gdesklets - 0.36-5build1

---------------
gdesklets (0.36-5build1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Rebuild to build with Python 2.6 (LP: #336200).

 -- Alessio Treglia <email address hidden> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:22:38 +0100

I don't understand, why this bug was set as "Fix Released" if the problem is related to bug #83922 ?

> I don't understand, why this bug was set as "Fix Released" if the
> problem is related to bug #83922 ?

I think because this bug targets the dependencies, which can be
fulfilled - but the fact that it doesn't run (on 64-bit systems
only?), well that's another issue unfortunately. :(
I said it is "blocked", perhaps I was wrong about the expression - it
is blocked when run.

If this so, I would encourage you to this bug should be close as invalid then. If you close this as "Fix Released", it's supposed that some characteristic has been included and commited but as far as I have understood, it's not the case.

Thanks.

I've sent a temporary patch for it at bug #83922 - it seems it's not
compatible with python 2.6 :\

In my case... Jaunty RC and above gdesklets work fine... the package is 0.36-5ubuntu1 and work only install it.

Setting as Invalid for the gdesklets core team, the real bug that would fix this is at bug #344079

OberonKing, that's because the fix was introduced on the 25th of March 2009. :)
And it's highly unlikely that you are still in jaunty RC at this point, if you update regularly you have the latest stable release of ubuntu, ubuntu 9.04 jaunty (no RC).