I have some partial success to report.
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 11:23:00PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> apt-listchanges is one of my favorite utilities. Thanks to all the
> developers.
>
> This leads to my dilemma. I want it, but I don't have it. I'm
> wondering if I could tweak the build process a bit and get it working.
>
> Background
>
> I recently updated apt to current testing (this was to fix a bug in
> aptitude), and this knocked out apt-listchanges. I really would like
> to get it back. It needs python 2.3, and that just won't migrate down
> (I was watching the clock tick down on it, but I see now it's held up
> because of build problems on various architectures. I'm getting the
> feeling the long wait will continue).
>
> My system is basically testing level, though with lots of packages
> less than current because of dependency issues.
>
> I have python2.3 (2.2.106-2beta2) on my system. It's just the python
> package itself is not at 2.3 (unless the needed 2.3 features were not
> present in the earlier releases?).
>
>
> Plan
>
> So I'm wondering if there's a way to get a working apt-listchanges on
> my system with my current software. I'm thinking of doing this
> (building from source):
> 1) edit the control file to depend on python2.3 instead of python (>= 2.3).
> 2) maybe I need to update-alternatives to make 2.3 my default python?
> or edit /usr/bin/python -> /usr/bin/python2.3 in the opening #! of all
> the python files for apt-listchanges
> 3) build it and use it.
>
> Nuts: I just noticed python-apt got zapped too; I guess I need to
> solve that for apt-listchanges to work. Maybe a similar strategy for
> it?
>
> As you can see, my basic thought is that since I have python 2.3, I
> should be able to work around these problems.
>
> Does this seem like a do-able strategy? Or just asking for trouble?
> Any tips?
>
> Thanks.
>
> P.S. If you could cc me it would be great, as I'm not a subscriber to
> this list. I will be checking it, though.
>
I installed python2.3-dev in testing and applied the attached patches
(to the unstable sources) to try to get apt-listchanges and python-apt
to use python2.3 rather than python (>=2.3), since the latter is
unavailable in testing. The build script for python-apt already
references python2.3 explicitly, so I made only one change to that
package source.
I built the two packages and dpkg -i'd them. When I tried to run apt
I got the following:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 35, in ?
import apt_listchanges
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/apt_listchanges.py", line 9, in ?
import email.Message
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/email/Message.py", line 17, in ?
from email import Charset
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/email/Charset.py", line 6, in ?
import email.base64MIME
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/email/base64MIME.py", line 31, in ?
from email._compat22 import _floordiv
ImportError: No module named _compat22
Preconfiguring packages ...
The python email package changes rapidly; I suspect what's happened is
that the the version in the testing python2.3 differs from that
in unstable.
There were also some compiler warnings that may indicate similar drift
at the C level (for python-apt). I don't know if they're significant:
-------------------------------------------
gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.3 -c python/sourcelist.cc -o
build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/python/sourcelist.o
python/sourcelist.cc: In function `PyObject* PkgSourceListFindIndex(PyObject*,
PyObject*)':
python/sourcelist.cc:30: warning: unused variable `PkgSourceListStruct&Struct'
python/sourcelist.cc: In function `PyObject* GetPkgSourceList(PyObject*,
PyObject*)':
python/sourcelist.cc:76: warning: `PyObject*Owner' might be used uninitialized
in this function
gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.3 -c python/apt_pkgmodule.cc
-o build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/python/apt_pkgmodule.o
gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.3 -c python/pkgsrcrecords.cc
-o build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/python/pkgsrcrecords.o
python/pkgsrcrecords.cc: In function `PyObject* GetPkgSrcRecords(PyObject*,
PyObject*)':
python/pkgsrcrecords.cc:111: warning: `PyObject*Owner' might be used
uninitialized in this function
gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.3 -c python/string.cc -o
build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/python/string.o
gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.3 -c python/configuration.cc
-o build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/python/configuration.o
gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.3 -c python/tag.cc -o
build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/python/tag.o
gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.3 -c python/cache.cc -o
build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/python/cache.o
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.3
gcc -pthread -shared build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/python/apt_pkgmodule.o
build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/python/configuration.o
build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/python/generic.o
build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/python/tag.o
build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/python/string.o
build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/python/cache.o
build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/python/pkgrecords.o
build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/python/pkgsrcrecords.o
build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/python/sourcelist.o -lapt-pkg -o
build/lib.linux-i686-2.3/apt_pkg.so
building 'apt_inst' extension
gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.3 -c python/apt_instmodule.cc
-o build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/python/apt_instmodule.o
gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.3 -c python/tar.cc -o
build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/python/tar.o
python/tar.cc: In member function `virtual bool
ProcessTar::DoItem(pkgDirStream::Item&, int&)':
python/tar.cc:45: warning: `const char*Type' might be used uninitialized in
this function
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I'm cc'ing debian-python in hopes someone there might shed some light
on this.
I also see on python-devel references to python2.3 coming through on
Wed, so I might just wait for it. The problem, at the moment, is that
even if python2.3 does migrate I'll have a huge (100 packages
currently) upgrade without the benefit of apt-listchanges, before a
working one gets reinstalled :(
diff -Naurx '*~' apt-listchanges-2.42/apt-listchanges
apt-listchanges-2.42rb/apt-listchanges
--- apt-listchanges-2.42/apt-listchanges 2003-08-16 21:53:47.000000000
-0700
+++ apt-listchanges-2.42rb/apt-listchanges 2003-10-13 23:09:19.000000000
-0700
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
+#!/usr/bin/python2.3
#
# apt-listchanges - Show changelog entries between the installed versions
diff -Naurx '*~' apt-listchanges-2.42/debian/control
apt-listchanges-2.42rb/debian/control
--- apt-listchanges-2.42/debian/control 2003-08-15 18:41:23.000000000 -0700
+++ apt-listchanges-2.42rb/debian/control 2003-10-13 23:10:28.000000000
-0700
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
Package: apt-listchanges
Architecture: all
-Depends: python (>= 2.3), apt (>= 0.5.3), python-apt, debconf, ucf
+Depends: python2.3, apt (>= 0.5.3), python-apt, debconf, ucf
Suggests: x-terminal-emulator, www-browser, debianutils
Description: Display new Debian changelog entries from .deb archives
apt-listchanges is a tool to show what has been changed in a new
diff -Naurx '*~' apt-listchanges-2.42/debian/prerm
apt-listchanges-2.42rb/debian/prerm
--- apt-listchanges-2.42/debian/prerm 2002-02-16 10:36:59.000000000 -0800
+++ apt-listchanges-2.42rb/debian/prerm 2003-10-13 23:11:36.000000000 -0700
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
set -e
-rm -f /usr/lib/site-python/DebianControlParser.pyc \
- /usr/lib/site-python/apt_listchanges.pyc
+rm -f /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/DebianControlParser.pyc \
+ /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/apt_listchanges.pyc
# dh_installdeb will replace this with shell code automatically
# generated by other debhelper scripts.
diff -Naurx '*~' apt-listchanges-2.42/Makefile apt-listchanges-2.42rb/Makefile
--- apt-listchanges-2.42/Makefile 2003-08-15 18:41:22.000000000 -0700
+++ apt-listchanges-2.42rb/Makefile 2003-10-13 23:08:47.000000000 -0700
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
install: all
install -d $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin
install -m 755 apt-listchanges $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin
- install -d $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/site-python
+ install -d $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages
install -m 644 DebianControlParser.py apt_listchanges.py \
- $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/site-python
+ $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages
install -d $(DESTDIR)/etc/apt/apt.conf.d
install -m 644 debian/apt.conf \
$(DESTDIR)/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20listchanges
diff -Naurx '*~' apt-listchanges-2.42/po/Makefile
apt-listchanges-2.42rb/po/Makefile
--- apt-listchanges-2.42/po/Makefile 2002-01-15 16:19:14.000000000 -0800
+++ apt-listchanges-2.42rb/po/Makefile 2003-10-13 23:06:50.000000000 -0700
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
CC = gcc
GENCAT = gencat
MSGFMT = /usr/bin/msgfmt --statistics
-XGETTEXT = /usr/share/doc/python2.2/examples/Tools/i18n/pygettext.py
+XGETTEXT = /usr/share/doc/python2.3/examples/Tools/i18n/pygettext.py
MSGMERGE = msgmerge
POFILES = $(wildcard *.po)
diff -Naurx '*~' python-apt-0.5.8/debian/control
python-apt-0.5.8rb/debian/control
--- python-apt-0.5.8/debian/control 2003-08-08 06:01:59.000000000 -0700
+++ python-apt-0.5.8rb/debian/control 2003-10-13 23:51:32.000000000 -0700
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
Maintainer: APT Development Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Uploaders: Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Standards-Version: 3.1.1
-Build-Depends: debhelper, libapt-pkg-dev (>= 0.5.5), apt-utils, python-dev (>=
2.3)
+Build-Depends: debhelper, libapt-pkg-dev (>= 0.5.5), apt-utils, python2.3-dev
Package: python-apt
Architecture: any
diff -Naurx '*~' python-apt-0.5.8/debian/python-dep
python-apt-0.5.8rb/debian/python-dep
--- python-apt-0.5.8/debian/python-dep 2002-02-14 16:46:44.000000000 -0800
+++ python-apt-0.5.8rb/debian/python-dep 2003-10-14 00:01:07.000000000
-0700
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
import sys;
if sys.version[:3] != "1.5":
- print "python:Depends=python (>= %s), python (<< %s)" %
(sys.version[:3],float(sys.version[:3])+0.1)
+ #print "python:Depends=python (>= %s), python (<< %s)" %
(sys.version[:3],float(sys.version[:3])+0.1)
+ print "python:Depends=python2.3" # hack
else:
print "python:Depends=python-base (>= 1.5) | python1.5"
