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pyslide story

Posted in Debian, Linux, Ubuntu by Kartik Mistry on April 25th, 2008

* Someday back, it was decided that python-xml is no longer updated in Debian and Ubuntu, so it will be removed and this bug #468610 was filed (with many similar bugs).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 :)

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  1. andrewsomething said, on April 26th, 2008 at 2:45 am

    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

  2. Kartik Mistry said, on April 26th, 2008 at 9:40 am

    @andrew,

    Question is, is pyslide works fine without depending on python-xml? Use /usr/share/doc/pyslide/examples to test.

    Thanks!

  3. andrewsomething said, on April 27th, 2008 at 8:21 am

    I was able to run both full.xml effects.xml successfully with with pyslide on Hardy.

  4. andrewsomething said, on April 27th, 2008 at 8:23 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’

  5. Kartik Mistry said, on April 27th, 2008 at 11:40 am

    @andrew,

    If you have launchpad a/c, can you please file a ‘grave’ bug? :P

  6. andrewsomething said, on April 27th, 2008 at 2:31 pm

    I reopened the bug, and am attempting to get a SRU adding python-xml as dep. Debdiff already attached.

  7. Chirag Patel said, on April 29th, 2008 at 12:46 am

    Do you have any experience with “git”? I am looking for various reports of git repository thru’ GUI.

  8. Kartik Mistry said, on April 29th, 2008 at 9:13 pm

    Chirag, I maintain some packages (2 to be precise) in git repository and still trying to learn it :)

  9. Chirag Patel said, on May 3rd, 2008 at 12:45 am

    Thank you.

  10. Kartik Mistry said, on May 5th, 2008 at 4:44 pm

    https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2008-April/011411.html

  11. ScottK said, on May 8th, 2008 at 2:39 am

    The SRU is in hardy-proposed and needs people to install, test, and say it works in the bug (mentioned above).

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