This breaks dev-util/spe. The previous version of pychecker does contain pychecker2. $ spe SPE v0.8.4.h (c)2003-2008 www.stani.be If spe fails to start: - type "python SPE.py --debug > debug.txt 2>&1" at the command prompt (or if you use tcsh: "python SPE.py --debug >& debug.txt") - send debug.txt with some info to spe.stani.be[at]gmail.com Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/spe-2.7", line 3, in <module> import _spe.SPE File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_spe/SPE.py", line 55, in <module> import Menu,Parent,Child File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_spe/Parent.py", line 25, in <module> import Child File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_spe/Child.py", line 24, in <module> import _spe.plugins.Pycheck as Pycheck File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_spe/plugins/Pycheck.py", line 22, in <module> import _spe.plugins.pychecker2 as pychecker2 ImportError: No module named pychecker2 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge pychecker 2. start spe 3. error no module found pychecker2 emerge --info Portage 2.1.11.26 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.5.4-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.5.4-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-3770K_CPU_@_3.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 13:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.9-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.27.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.10.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22.90 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.6 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r3 Repositories: gentoo multimedia x11 sunrise mate-overlay enlightenment x-portage ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA AdobeFlash-10.1 AdobeFlash-10.3 dlj-1.1 googleearth PUEL Broadcom" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=native" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="${EPREFIX}/etc/gconf /etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/mateconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=native" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fail-clean fixlafiles news parallel-fetch parallel-install preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo" LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--sort-common" LINGUAS="en en_GB nl" MAKEOPTS="-j6" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/multimedia /var/lib/layman/x11 /var/lib/layman/sunrise /var/lib/layman/mate /var/lib/layman/enlightenment /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 avahi avx berkdb bluetooth bluray branding bzip2 cairo caja cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dirac dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif faac fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gmp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk3 iconv idn ipv6 jpeg kde lame lcms ldap libnotify lm_sensors lzma mad mate matroska mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mtp mudflap multilib musepack nautilus ncurses networkmanager nls nptl offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pango pch pcre pdf phonon png policykit ppds pppd pulseaudio python qt3support qt4 rar readline samba scanner sdl semantic-desktop session speex spell sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg tcpd theora threads tiff tracker truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb v4l vaapi vdpau vorbis vpx wavpack wayland webp wxwidgets x264 xcb xcomposite xml xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="wiki-publisher" LINGUAS="en en_GB nl" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_2 python2_7" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel radeon fbdev vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
This is a most unfortunate instance of no reply from those who administer and release the package.
I think this can be closed. The original breaking package dev-util/spe is no longer in the tree.
