Bug#799677: pitivi: Incorrect depends, build-depends, and other issues

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Mon, 21 Sep 201509:27:23 -0400 Scott Kitterman <debian at kitterman.com> wrote:

> To start with, pitivi only builds against a single python3 version (the
> default), not all versions, so it should build-dep on python3-dev vice
> python3-all-dev.  The python3-all-dev build-dep makes it appear on the list
> of candidate packages for the python3.5 transition [1], which is should not.

Thanks, will fix with next upload

> That is, however, probably the most minor thing I noticed once I started
> looking.
> 
> In the depends, it should be python3:Depends vice python:Depends.  Since the
> python files are shipped in a private library location, you will have to
> specify the location to dh_python3 (see man dh_python3, private dirs.
> 
> The generated python3 depends should currently look like:
> 
> python3 (<< 3.5), python3 (>= 3.4~)
> 
> The manual python3 depends should be removed.  I was not able to figure out
> how to make this work, but I suspect it has to do with a linking issue in the
> build.

Ack

>  If you look at the i386 build log [2], it contains:
> 
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: debian/pitivi/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pitivi/python/pitivi/timeline/renderer.so contains an unresolvable reference to symbol PyList_GetItem: it's probably a plugin
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: 8 other similar warnings have been skipped (use -v to see them all)
> 
> PyList_GetItem is provided by python3.4, so this is not a plugin, it's a
> missing link.

My understanding is that you don't link Python modules against
libpython, because the interpreter is already statically linked against
libpython itself.

> I suspect that between fixing that and the private dirs issue for dh_python3,
> the depends issue should end up sorted.
> 
> Finally, if you look at the file list for the binary (the same i386 build log
> [2] provides a convenient place to look), there are multiple __pycache__
> directories in the binary that should not be there.  Those should be generated
> on the target system.

Thanks!
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