On Mon, Jan 16 2017, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote:
> If one runs assword gui with its dependencies installed but without a
> full Gtk environment, it produces the following baffling error message:
>
> $ assword gui '<some-string>'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/assword", line 11, in <module>
> load_entry_point('assword==0.10', 'console_scripts', 'assword')()
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/assword/__main__.py", line 553, in main
> func(args)
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/assword/__main__.py", line 327, in gui
> from assword.gui import Gui
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/assword/gui.py", line 2, in <module>
> gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 118, in
> require_version
> raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace)
> ValueError: Namespace Gtk not available
>
> Installing gir1.2-gtk-3.0 resolves this error, but it's very difficult to
> discover that this is the fix, since there's no mention of this package
> anywhere in the assword package metadata. I'm both an experienced Debian
> developer and use Python regularly, and it took me several months to
> finally hit on the right clues to track down this package, after lots of
> wasted time installing random Python Gtk packages and comparing all the
> Python libraries I had installed with another system where it was working.
>
> Could this please be listed in Recommends or in a README.Debian file or
> *somewhere* where people might be able to find it?Hi, Russ. Thanks for the bug report, and I'm very sorry about the trouble. I wonder though if this is a Gtk packaging issue instead of an assword one. assword includes a dependency on the python gtk package it utilizes (python3-gi). If that package is non-functional without other packages installed, doesn't that mean that pytho3-gi is missing a dependency? Seems like we should forward this to python3-gi. jamie.
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