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Bug 166598

Summary: dev-embedded/picptk needs dev-tcltk/iwidgets-3.0
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Lee <curtlee2002>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Embedded Team (OBSOLETE) <dev-embedded+disabled>
Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Lee 2007-02-13 00:02:12 UTC
dev-embedded/picptk-0.5a-r1 emerges fine. When you try to run it, it gives this error:

# picptk
Error in startup script: can't find package Iwidgets 3.0
    while executing
"package require Iwidgets 3.0"
    (file "/usr/bin/picptk" line 35)


The portage has dev-tcltk/iwidgets-4.0.1 but not 3.0. dev-tcltk/iwidgets-4.0.1 is installed as a dependency to dev-embedded/picptk-0.5a-r1.

Thank You For Your Time

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Denis Dupeyron (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-02-17 15:06:33 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> dev-embedded/picptk-0.5a-r1 emerges fine. When you try to run it, it gives this
> error:
> 
> # picptk
> Error in startup script: can't find package Iwidgets 3.0
>     while executing
> "package require Iwidgets 3.0"
>     (file "/usr/bin/picptk" line 35)

Confirmed.

> The portage has dev-tcltk/iwidgets-4.0.1 but not 3.0. dev-tcltk/iwidgets-4.0.1
> is installed as a dependency to dev-embedded/picptk-0.5a-r1.

Indeed, and Portage seems to never have had iwidgets-3.0, which is weird. A quick talk with robbat2 learned me that iwidgets-3.0 came with itcl at some point, but it appears it's not the case anymore.

I hacked the code to bypass the iwidgets-3.0 requirement check, and see if it would run with iwidgets-4.0.1, but no dice. It crashes with all sorts of errors. 

So, we have a package that builds but doesn't run, and an upstream that looks dead to me. Whoever you are, if you know a way to fix this or have any interest at all in this package, please speak up now. If not, I'll post the usual last rites and pmask picptk in a week or so, for removal a month after that.

Denis.
Comment 2 Denis Dupeyron (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-02-28 22:13:51 UTC
I have just pmasked dev-embedded as promised. Feel free to reopen this bug if you have a working solution.

Denis.
Comment 3 Denis Dupeyron (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-02-28 22:15:42 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> I have just pmasked dev-embedded as promised. [...]

I meant dev-embedded/picptk. No need to worry about the whole category being masked, OK ? ;o)

Denis.