- If this package can be used as a library and installs Python modules (*.so or *.py) into site-packages directories, then consider supporting installation for multiple Python versions. Please read section "Types of packages" in documentation [1] to decide if this package can support installation for multiple Python versions. - Ensure that the ebuilds do not use deprecated functions or variables. - Please check if Python 3 is supported by this package. You can temporarily set Python 3 as main active version of Python to properly test if this package supports Python 3. - If this package does not support Python 3: - Specify dependency on Python 2. You can use PYTHON_DEPEND helper variable, which should be set before inheriting of python eclass. Please read section "Specification of dependency on Python" in documentation [1]. - If this package cannot support installation for multiple versions of Python, then set active version of Python using python_set_active_version(). - Ensure that shebangs in installed scripts specify correct version of Python. If shebangs are too generic (e.g. '#!/usr/bin/python'), then you can use python_convert_shebangs() to convert shebangs. (Wrapper scripts generated by python_generate_wrapper_scripts() do not require any changes.) Please read section "Shebangs in installed scripts" in documentation [1]. - To ensure that changes applied to the ebuilds are sufficient, please temporarily set Python 3 as main active version of Python and test if this package can be properly installed and if it works at run time. Please see documentation [1] for more details. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/Python/developersguide.xml
*** Bug 350098 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Specifically this package needs patching to allow building against python 2.7 Patches are provided for this here: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/9584 Also, why is this bug assigned to xbox herd since XBMC doesn't support the xbox as a platform anymore? XBMC is just a normal PC application.
this bug isnt about python-2.7 compatibility
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/598dfdce5b sheds internal Python, so the bigger issues will fortunately become moot soon enough. Current ebuild does install some minor stuffs into site-packages though which could be done in a cleaner way indeed.
Very important is the call of /usr/share/xbmc/FEH.py in /usr/bin/xbmc:106 python /usr/share/xbmc/FEH.py $SAVED_ARGS This should be changed to python2. I use python3 as default python version and can't even start xbmc because FEH.py hast python2 syntax.
we use python eclass now and PYTHON_DEPEND. don't really know what else there is to do, so this bug isn't really helping.
COMMON_DEPEND contains >=dev-lang/python-2.4, which matches Python 3. I suggest to call python_mod_optimize() and python_mod_cleanup() on files/directories installed by this package in /usr/lib*/python*/site-packages. Example: pkg_postinst() { python_mod_optimize xbmcclient.py } pkg_postrm() { python_mod_cleanup xbmcclient.py }