Bug 239930

Summary:	[TRACKER] Packages using python_tkinter_exists should use EAPI=2 instead
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Python Gentoo Team <python>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	jlec, pavel.bazika
Priority:	High	Keywords:	Tracker
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	244548, 244550, 244551, 244553, 260281, 260745, 260747, 260749, 260751
Bug Blocks:	261562

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-10-05 11:39:02 UTC

As far as I can see, packages using python_tkinter_exists are candidate to EAPI=2 porting so that instead of dying at build, the proper dep would be stated (python[tk]).

HTH,
Diego

Comment 1 Ali Polatel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-10-27 00:00:24 UTC

I've fixed packages maintained by python herd:
app-editors/leo
dev-python/pythong
media-sound/lilycomp (no herd ;)
net-im/msnlib

For the rest of the packages, I filed bugs which are dependencies of this one.

Comment 2 Pavel Bazika 2009-03-01 16:57:16 UTC

Filed other bugs as dependencies of this, which contain proposed patches converting some other ebuild to EAPI 2. These ebuilds use python_tkinter_exists function from "python" eclass or distutils_python_tkinter function from "distutils" eclass. 
After applying proposed patches, above mentioned functions are no longer needed (except not -r1 ebuilds for skencil and msnlib).

Comment 3 Jesus Rivero (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-03-10 04:09:59 UTC

Hello, 

   I'm not much into this. I believe dev-lang/python is a bit tricky wrt use deps. I've stated this in -dev before. What I suggest while this issue is not worked around, is to use both checks (use deps and eclass functions) to check whether is true that the current active python version implements the use flag. 

   Just to refresh my concerns about this, when people have multiple versions of pythons installed in their systems, use deps checks are not reliable, meaning that the active version could be missing the flags if previous versions have it set. Consider this when python-2.6 gets unmasked.

   Best regards,

Comment 4 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-14 22:51:36 UTC

*** Bug 261757 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-08-23 12:31:38 UTC

There is no usage of python_tkinter_exists in tree, so I consider this fixed.