Bug 23928 – meld 0.8.2 does not start

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2003-07-03 16:31:23 UTC]

Meld 0.8.2 does not start, there are two problems:

1) The necessary patch is commented out in the ebuild, but without it meld will
not work

2) The patch does not work. Output, when you start:

meld
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/meld", line 63, in ?
    import meldapp
  File "/usr/lib/meld/meldapp.py", line 29, in ?
    import filediff
  File "/usr/lib/meld/filediff.py", line 31, in ?
    import diffutil
  File "/usr/lib/meld/diffutil.py", line 19, in ?
    import misc
  File "/usr/lib/meld/misc.py", line 52
    where = /usr/share/meld
            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Anyway: Some days ago I already posted an updated patch for 0.8.2 which works,
so either use this or at least close the bug:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23516

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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[Comment 1 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2003-07-05 17:07:32 UTC]

thanks for that. it seems like the dev previous didn't check it at all :/

i've replaced it with your patch and re-enabled the patch