Bug 608486 – app-text/paperwork-1.1 and app-text/paperwork-backend-1.1 are not compatible with <python3

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Kristian 2017-02-06 22:32:44 UTC]

I installed paperwork-1.1 for python2_7. Startup fails with

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python2.7/paperwork", line 3, in <module>
    from paperwork.paperwork import main
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/paperwork/paperwork.py", line 41, in <module>
    from .frontend.mainwindow import ActionRefreshIndex, MainWindow
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/paperwork/frontend/mainwindow/__init__.py", line 37, in <module>
    from paperwork_backend.docsearch import DocSearch
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/paperwork_backend/docsearch.py", line 24, in <module>
    import queue
ImportError: No module named queue

The Queue module has been renamed to queue in Python 3. See https://docs.python.org/2/library/queue.html

Changing the import to "queue" lets paperwork start up, but it still seems broken.

Removing python2_7 from PYTHON_COMPAT in paperwork and paperwork-backend gives me a working version with python3_4.

[Comment 1 Kristian 2017-02-06 22:33:43 UTC]

changing it to "Queue" of course ...

[Comment 2 Bernard Cafarelli 2017-02-13 14:31:24 UTC]

Thanks for the report!

There is a bugfix release available but it does not mention python2 compatibility, I will mention this upstream

[Comment 3 Bernard Cafarelli 2017-02-13 15:31:42 UTC]

OK so one of the changes I missed from 1.0 was the switch to python 3 only support. So 1.0.x versions worked only with some luck :)

I updated >=1.1 ebuilds to reflect this