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gramps 3.1.2 in Karmic should allow python2.5 or python2.6

Bug #431059 reported by Jeff Stone
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gramps (Debian)
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gramps (Ubuntu)
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Declined for Lucid by Alessio Treglia

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gramps

Hi, the summary pretty much says it all, I've checked with Benny (<email address hidden>) from the GRAMPS mailing list (<email address hidden>) who said:

I believe gramps works fine with python 2.6, there is no reason for
python-2.5 only, >= 2.5 should be all needed (but 3.0 will not work
obviously).
You should notify the packager if there is an issue with the karmic package.

There's also this page http://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Python2.6 which seems to confirm that GRAMPS is just fine with 2.6.

I think the package should require either python2.5 or python2.6 (but not 3.0). As it is currently, it requires python2.5 and python >= 2.5.

I don't know if this should go to the people at Debian, if so how should I proceed? I'm just a guy sitting in my living room so my apologies if I've done anything incorrectly.

I can help you verify the fix if something is implemented.

My eternal gratitude to everyone at Ubuntu,

Jeff

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Alessio Treglia (quadrispro) wrote :

Forwarding to Debian maintainer

Changed in gramps (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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Changed in gramps (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
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Jeff Stone (stone1343) wrote :

I've been trying to be sure that everything will work with python2.6, so I figured out how to modify the package to require python2.6 instead on python2.5. Then I got this error:

jeff@ubuntu-karmic:~$ sudo dpkg -i gramps_3.1.2-1_all.deb
Selecting previously deselected package gramps.
(Reading database ... 110906 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gramps (from gramps_3.1.2-1_all.deb) ...
Setting up gramps (3.1.2-1) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 2190, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 2184, in main
    rv = action.run(global_options)
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1496, in run
    self.options.exclude, byte_compile_default=True)
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1092, in install
    self.default_runtime.byte_compile(self.private_files, bc_option,
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'byte_compile'
dpkg: error processing gramps (--install):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for gnome-icon-theme ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gramps

I'm learning all this as I go along, but I see postinst failed in pycentral, and I can see the offending code in pycentral:

        if byte_compile_default:
            if self.private_files:
                self.default_runtime.byte_compile(self.private_files, bc_option,
                                                  exclude_regex, ignore_errors)

That tells me that self.default_runtime is null, but I've changed PythonVersion in the control file to 2.6.

I found a file called /usr/share/pycentral-data/pyversions.py that says supported_versions includes only python2.4 and 2.5. So now, I don't know if this is a bug in pycentral (doubt it) or whether there is a replacement for pycentral with python2.6 (more likely) or whether this is related in some way to bug #353251

I don't know if pycentral is part of Python or what it is, so I can't proceed any further for now.

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Changed in gramps (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
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Jeff Stone (stone1343) wrote :

Now that this has been fixed in Debian, is there anything I need to do to get it into Lucid? Thanks

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Alessio Treglia (quadrispro) wrote :

Sync from debian unstable has been requested.

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Alessio Treglia (quadrispro) wrote :

Please see bug #487126

Alessio Treglia (quadrispro)
Changed in gramps (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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