Bug 703800

Summary:	dev-libs/libinput: Missing dependency on dev-python/libevdev
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	haarp <main.haarp>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	jstein, polynomial-c, x11
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevdev/python-libevdev.git
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	703804
Bug Blocks:

Description haarp 2019-12-25 21:56:51 UTC

Please add dev-python/libevdev to the gentoo repo.

libinput comes with various tools. Among them is one which can be called via "libinput measure fuzz". This tool requires Petter Hutterer's libevdev python bindings to work.

Note that I am *not* referring to dev-libs/libevdev nor dev-python/python-evdev, which are different packages.

I've added a trivial ebuild to my "haarp" overlay. But seeing as this is a missing dependency of an existiing package existing in the gentoo repo, I figure it's more sensible to have python-libevdev exist in the gentoo repo.

Thanks!

Comment 1 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2020-01-02 20:53:27 UTC

Perhaps provide a link to the upstream repository?

Comment 2 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2020-01-02 20:54:01 UTC

Also a build log with the failure from the missing package?

Comment 3 haarp 2020-01-02 20:57:37 UTC

(In reply to Matt Turner from comment #2)
> Also a build log with the failure from the missing package?

It builds fine, libevdev is a runtime dependency:

> libinput measure fuzz
Error: No module named 'libevdev'
One or more python modules are missing. Please install those modules and re-run this tool.

> Perhaps provide a link to the upstream repository?

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevdev/python-libevdev.git

Comment 4 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2020-01-02 21:00:46 UTC

Thank you!

Comment 5 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2020-03-09 02:06:02 UTC

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0b5616c3dedc857001d0b42e579c6599cf713f43

commit 0b5616c3dedc857001d0b42e579c6599cf713f43
Author:     Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2020-03-09 02:03:34 +0000
Commit:     Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2020-03-09 02:05:41 +0000

    dev-libs/libinput: Inform users about dev-python/python-libevdev
    
    I don't think a runtime dependency is warranted for these two tools, so
    let's just inform users about the dependency.
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/703800
    Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>

 dev-libs/libinput/libinput-1.15.3.ebuild | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)