pyslide story
* Someday back, it was decided that python-xml is no longer updated in Debian and Ubuntu, so it will be removed and this bug #468610 was filed (with many similar bugs). Good enough. I was searching and looking into it with my limited knowledge of Python and so on. Accidentally, I found that this bug has been ‘fixed’ into Ubuntu LP: #199014. Nice. I tried that solution and it wasn’t really working. So, Onkar opened it quickly with confirmation. Thanks to him for quick work.
So, I requested for ‘help’ of this bug. Nothing came from submitter. Now, it was closed again (9th April) with saying that python-xml dependency has been re-added. But, this diff is saying different story. It may be slipped in hurry of releasing Hardy!
Moral of the story: Ubuntu needs more QA work.
PS: Ubuntu users, please report grave bug if pyslide is not working without python-xml.
PS II: pyslide is nice little package to create nice presentations 
andrew@andrew-laptop:~$ apt-cache policy pyslide
pyslide:
Installed: 0.4-10ubuntu2
Candidate: 0.4-10ubuntu2
Version table:
0.4-10ubuntu2 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
andrew@andrew-laptop:~$ apt-cache depends pyslide
pyslide
Depends: libc6
Depends: libsdl1.2debian
Depends: python
Depends: python
Depends: python-pygame
Depends: python-support
Suggests: python-imaging
andrew@andrew-laptop:~$ apt-cache rdepends python-xml
python-xml
Reverse Depends:
grnotify
mythvideo
xbel-utils
python-zsi
python-xml-doc
python-xml-dbg
opendict
andrewsomething
April 26, 2008 at 2:45 am
@andrew,
Question is, is pyslide works fine without depending on python-xml? Use /usr/share/doc/pyslide/examples to test.
Thanks!
Kartik Mistry
April 26, 2008 at 9:40 am
I was able to run both full.xml effects.xml successfully with with pyslide on Hardy.
andrewsomething
April 27, 2008 at 8:21 am
Silly me, I need to remove python-xml first. You’re absolutely right.
andrew@andrew-laptop:/usr/share/doc/pyslide/examples$ pyslide full.xmlTraceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/pyslide”, line 30, in
m.action()
File “/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/Pyslide/Main/__init__.py”, line 71, in __call__
fo = main.loadfile(fn)
File “/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/Pyslide/Main/__init__.py”, line 294, in loadfile
from Pyslide.File import ReadFile
File “/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/Pyslide/File.py”, line 42, in
class ContentParser(xml.sax.saxutils.DefaultHandler):
AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘DefaultHandler’
andrewsomething
April 27, 2008 at 8:23 am
@andrew,
If you have launchpad a/c, can you please file a ‘grave’ bug?
Kartik Mistry
April 27, 2008 at 11:40 am
I reopened the bug, and am attempting to get a SRU adding python-xml as dep. Debdiff already attached.
andrewsomething
April 27, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Do you have any experience with “git”? I am looking for various reports of git repository thru’ GUI.
Chirag Patel
April 29, 2008 at 12:46 am
Chirag, I maintain some packages (2 to be precise) in git repository and still trying to learn it
Kartik Mistry
April 29, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Thank you.
Chirag Patel
May 3, 2008 at 12:45 am
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2008-April/011411.html
Kartik Mistry
May 5, 2008 at 4:44 pm
The SRU is in hardy-proposed and needs people to install, test, and say it works in the bug (mentioned above).
ScottK
May 8, 2008 at 2:39 am