From: Brian M. <br...@gr...> - 2008-03-25 18:27:28
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James, > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:07:04PM -0700, Stéphane > Charette wrote: > > GRAMPS 3.0.0 ("It was just getting interesting.") > has been released, > > and is available for download from > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/gramps > > I am working on the package for debian and have > encountered a few issues. > > First, I know that the changelog was removed from > CVS but I thought > that it was going to be generated for the release. > Not a big deal. A ChangeLog was generated and exists here: https://gramps.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gramps/tags/gramps-3.0.0/src/ChangeLog https://gramps.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gramps/tags/gramps-3.0.0/po/ChangeLog Stephane, Did those files make it into the release? > Second, is it intentional that no gconf schema is > installed? I know > there was one or more discussion about how > preferences are stored but > don't know the final form things took. There should be NO gconf schema installed. All preferences are stored in .ini and .xml files. > Third, debian compiles the python files at package > installation time and > an error was encountered: > > INFO: using unsupported version '/usr/bin/python2.5' > Compiling /usr/share/gramps/plugins/all_relations.py > ... > File "/usr/share/gramps/plugins/all_relations.py", > line 50 > class AllRelReport(): > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > Is this known? Getting rid of the parentheses fixes > the problem. That looks like a bug. Please be so kind as to file an issue on the tracker. I hope that doesn't cause a lot of headaches for our packagers. > Fourth, after installing the gramps package, running > gramps gives an > error. It can be replicated by simply doing: > > bash$ python2.5 > >>> import gtk > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > File > "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", > line 48, in <module> > from gtk import _gtk > ImportError: No module named cairo > > I've got python-cairo installed. Obviously, this is > not a bug in > gramps and I am wondering if anyone else has seen > it. The error suggests you don't have pycairo installed - at least not properly. Without that, Gramps will never run. Thanks for everything Treacy! ~Brian |