Package: python-gobject Version: 2.14.2-1 Severity: grave Tags: patch Justification: renders package unusable
Python app using pygtk fails with the error message as follows: [n...@nickl ~]$ sudo image-creator Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/image-creator", line 51, in <module> import gui File "/usr/share/pdk/lib/gui.py", line 24, in <module> import pygtk File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/pygtk.py", line 41 dir = os.getcwd() ^ TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation [n...@nickl ~]$ ls -l /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/pygtk.py lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 2008-06-19 11:44 /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/pygtk.py -> /usr/share/python-support/python-gobject/pygtk.py Error arises because Python has significant leading whitespace but this file pygtk.py is not consistent in its use of tabs versus spaces. Patch is attached which fixes this problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (800, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (3, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages python-gobject depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libffi5 3.0.7-1 Foreign Function Interface library ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-1+lenny1 The GLib library of C routines ii python 2.5.2-3 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-support 0.8.4 automated rebuilding support for P ii python2.5 2.5.2-15 An interactive high-level object-o python-gobject recommends no packages. Versions of packages python-gobject suggests: pn python-gobject-dbg <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information
--- pygtk.py.orig 2008-06-07 14:41:19.000000000 +0100 +++ pygtk.py 2009-05-06 11:37:34.000000000 +0100 @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ versions = {} for dir in sys.path: if not dir: - dir = os.getcwd() + dir = os.getcwd() if not os.path.isdir(dir): continue @@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ if not os.listdir(pathname): continue - if not versions.has_key(filename[-3:]): - versions[filename[-3:]] = pathname + if not versions.has_key(filename[-3:]): + versions[filename[-3:]] = pathname return versions def require20():