[Reportbug-maint] Bug#851968: reportbug: Missing dependencies cause crash of reportbug

[Andreas Schmidt]

Package: reportbug
Version: 7.1.3
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

earlier this day, when I wanted to start reportbug, it immediately crashed with
the following output:

***
pc at debian:$ reportbug
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2234, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1084, in main
    if newui.initialize():
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/reportbug/ui/gtk2_ui.py", line 1778, in
initialize
    gi.require_version('Vte', '2.91')
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 118, in
require_version
    raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace)
ValueError: Namespace Vte not available
pc at debian:$
***

I solved this by installing gir1.2-vte-2.91, which reportbug does not depend
on, but only suggest.

Thereafter, reportbug started, and I got to the point where I could enter the
subject of the bugreport. At this point, reportbug crashed again, with a bunch
of identical error messages:

***
TypeError: Couldn't find foreign struct converter for 'cairo.Context'
***

After installing python3-gi-cairo, these errors disappeared, and I am now using
reportbug to report this bug of reportbug. :-)

Could you, please, add/raise dependencies for gir1.2-vte-2.91 and python3-gi-
cairo so the program will work out of the box again?

With best regards

Andreas



-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
INTERFACE="gtk2"

** /home/pc/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "6.4.3"
mode standard
ui gtk2
email "pi-c at arcor.de"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                1.4~beta4
ii  python3-reportbug  7.1.3
pn  python3:any        <none>

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  claws-mail                               <none>
pn  debconf-utils                            <none>
pn  debsums                                  <none>
ii  dlocate                                  1.07
pn  emacs23-bin-common | emacs24-bin-common  <none>
ii  file                                     1:5.29-2
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                           3.22.7-1
ii  gir1.2-vte-2.91                          0.46.1-1
ii  gnupg                                    2.1.17-6
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent]           3.1.4-3
ii  python3-gi                               3.22.0-2
ii  python3-gtkspellcheck                    4.0.5-1
pn  python3-urwid                            <none>
ii  xdg-utils                                1.1.1-1

Versions of packages python3-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                1.4~beta4
ii  file               1:5.29-2
ii  python3-debian     0.1.29
ii  python3-debianbts  2.6.1
ii  python3-requests   2.12.4-1
pn  python3:any        <none>

python3-reportbug suggests no packages.

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