Bug 281714

Summary:	dev-python/{pygtk,pygobject} must inherit alternatives.eclass
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sven <sven.koehler>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	python
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Sven 2009-08-16 21:08:55 UTC

Hi,

many ebuilds (such as pygobject and pygtk) rely on the
alternatives_auto_makesym function.

At least pygobject and pygtk rely on the fact, that python.eclass
inherits alternatives.eclass. But this has been changed:

http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/eclass/python.eclass?r1=1.64&r2=1.65

And now these python packages are broken. pygobject and pygtk become
unusable. Many more python packages may be affected.

Fix this fast!
Python 2.6 just went stable on x86 and many people will use python-update which recompiled pygtk and pygobject.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-16 21:17:55 UTC

Could you provide the list of packages?

These packages should directly inherit alternatives.eclass. python.eclass shouldn't inherit alternatives.eclass.

Comment 2 Sven 2009-08-16 21:26:29 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Could you provide the list of packages?
> 
> These packages should directly inherit alternatives.eclass. python.eclass
> shouldn't inherit alternatives.eclass.


$ grep -lr alternatives_ /usr/portage/*-* |xargs -d "\n" grep -L "inherit.*alternatives"
/usr/portage/dev-python/pygtk/pygtk-2.14.1.ebuild
/usr/portage/dev-python/pygtk/pygtk-2.12.1-r2.ebuild
/usr/portage/dev-python/pygtk/pygtk-2.14.1-r1.ebuild
/usr/portage/dev-python/pygobject/pygobject-2.18.0.ebuild
/usr/portage/dev-python/pygobject/pygobject-2.16.1.ebuild
/usr/portage/dev-python/pygobject/pygobject-2.14.2.ebuild
/usr/portage/dev-python/pygobject/pygobject-2.15.4.ebuild
/usr/portage/dev-python/pygobject/pygobject-2.16.0.ebuild
/usr/portage/dev-python/pygobject/pygobject-2.16.1-r1.ebuild
/usr/portage/dev-python/pygobject/pygobject-2.14.0.ebuild


So I was wrong, there are not so many ebuilds. But they are important.

Comment 3 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-16 22:50:32 UTC

Fixed.

Comment 4 Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2009-08-17 09:34:50 UTC

What about this : https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281681 ?

Comment 5 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-17 11:17:34 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> What about this : https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281681 ?

Completely unrelated.