On Tuesday 02 March 2010 10:08:24, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Coming back to the topic, the dependency between desktopcouch and -records > got added following https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/422179 > but Ken Vandine never gave the error message he had. > > IMO it's this dependency that should not exist and I'm not sure why > the service requires it. Maybe the part of -records that is required > by desktopcouch should be moved to python-desktopcouch.
After Bill poked me about the bug not really being fixed by the package merge,
I investigated a bit more about that LP bug, and the overall dependency
situation.
The problem is that start_local_couchdb.py uses:
from desktopcouch.records.server import CouchDatabase
which is available in the current python-desktopcouch-records package (that's
why Ken added the dependency).
The server.py module needs server_base.py and record.py. This would leave
/usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/records/ (in the py-desktopcouch-records
package, at the moment) almost empty, with a major part of the package
containing things that I wouldn't call "Records API" (thus the package name
would be inappropriate, at least).
From:
$ dpkg -L python-desktopcouch-records | grep pyshared/desktopcouch/
/usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/notes/[..]
/usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/contacts/[..]
/usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/replication_services/[..]
/usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/records/
/usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/records/server_base.py
/usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/records/record.py
/usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/records/couchgrid.py
/usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/records/__init__.py
/usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/records/tests
/usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/records/tests/[..]
/usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/records/field_registry.py
/usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/records/server.py
$
It would become something like (stripping the files that would need to go to
the "desktopcouch" package):
/usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/notes/[..]
/usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/contacts/[..]
/usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/replication_services/[..]
/usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/records/
/usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/records/couchgrid.py
/usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/records/tests
/usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/records/tests/[..]
/usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/records/field_registry.py
I think a "proper" solution could be:
1) put /usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/records/ into "desktopcouch" too (and
add Provides: python-desktopcouch-records)
2) move the remaining /usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/*/ to a new "python-
desktopcouch-something" package (where something == "extra", or similar).
What do you think?
Kindly,
David
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