Your message dated Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:04:43 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#673851: deskbar-applet: please detect dbus-python via Python (not pkg-config) or build-depend on python-dbus-dev has caused the Debian Bug report #673851, regarding deskbar-applet: please detect dbus-python via Python (not pkg-config) or build-depend on python-dbus-dev to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Source: deskbar-applet Version: 2.32.0-1 Severity: wishlist dbus-python ships a header file and a pkg-config metadata file for use by out-of-tree main loop implementations, such as python-qt4 and python-edbus. These are intended to be pretty rarely used, a lot like python-gtk2-dev - the only packages which are intended to use them are Python bindings for main loop implementations (again, like python-qt4 and python-edbus). Unfortunately, several packages use pkg-config as a more general check for "is dbus-python installed?", and deskbar-applet is one of them. This has become significant because the header file and pkg-config metadata have moved to a new binary package, python-dbus-dev. At the moment, python-dbus depends on python-dbus-dev for backwards compatibility (to avoid breaking packages like yours), but I would like to remove that dependency (Bug #673779). Longer-term, work being done on pure-Python main loop support might mean that the C header and pkg-config metadata will eventually go away entirely in favour of pure-Python GLib, Qt and E main loop glue. The correct, long-term solution for packages that don't implement a main loop is to check for the dbus Python module (and, if required, the dbus.mainloop.glib Python module) as you would for a pure-Python module: run "python -c 'import dbus'", or use the AM_CHECK_PYMOD macro, or whatever. If you need to check the version number, it's exported by the dbus module as a string (dbus.__version__) and a tuple (dbus.version). If that's not feasible, the next best thing is to set your package's build-dependencies as if you were implementing a main loop: * build-depend on python-dbus-dev * if you support Python 2, also build-depend on python-dbus * if you support Python 3, also build-depend on python3-dbus Thanks, Simon
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 2.32.0-1+rm deskbar-applet is only in oldstable, closing.
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