Re: [Deskbar] Problems running from git

[wp1075967-marduk <sebp k-d-w org>]

Am Freitag, den 30.10.2009, 20:40 +0100 schrieb Perriman
<chuchiperriman gmail com>:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to do some test with deskbar-applet. I have a problem running
> deskbar-applet with ./deskbar/deskbar-applet -w.
> 
> I'm getting the error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./deskbar/deskbar-applet", line 77, in <module>
>     parser = OptionParser(usage=usage)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 1214, in __init__
>     add_help=add_help_option)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 1260, in
> _populate_option_list
>     self._add_help_option()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 1245, in _add_help_option
>     help=_("show this help message and exit"))
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py", line 581, in gettext
>     return dgettext(_current_domain, message)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py", line 545, in dgettext
>     codeset=_localecodesets.get(domain))
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py", line 493, in translation
>     t = _translations.setdefault(key, class_(open(mofile, 'rb')))
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py", line 180, in __init__
>     self._parse(fp)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py", line 315, in _parse
>     self.plural = c2py(plural)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py", line 100, in c2py
>     plural = expr.sub(' not \\1', plural)
> TypeError: import_module() takes at most 5 arguments (6 given)
> 
> Really the problem is in the gettext package, if I try to call gettext
> before the OptionParser, it crash in the gettext line. The .mo file is
> correctly installed and I'm using python 2.6. Can you help me?
> 
The problem is ltihooks together with python 2.6. The (undocumented) API
changed in python 2.6. I'm not aware of a fix for this problem.
Therefore, you can't use deskbar uninstalled with python 2.6.

> I want to clean some dependencies too because in ubuntu (and debian)
> deskbar-applet depends on:
> 
> Depende: python-gnome2
> Depende: python-gnome2-desktop
> 
> the python-gnome2-desktop package depends on:
> 
>   Depende: python-bugbuddy
>   Depende: python-evince
>   Depende: python-evolution
>   Depende: python-gnomeapplet
>   Depende: python-gnomedesktop
>   Depende: python-gnomekeyring
>   Depende: python-gnomeprint
>   Depende: python-gtksourceview
>   Depende: python-gtop
>   Depende: python-mediaprofiles
>   Depende: python-metacity
>   Depende: python-nautilusburn
>   Depende: python-rsvg
>   Depende: python-totem-plparser
>   Depende: python-wnck
> 
> In this list there is a lot of deprecated packages (like gnomeprint or
> gtksourceview) and I think deskbar-applet doesn't depends.
> 
You have to talk to the debian/ubuntu packager about this, I didn't
package deskbar.

-- 
Greetings,
Sebastian Pölsterl