[maemo-developers] Problems with Python dependencies

[From: Quim Gil]

Hi, this weekend I took a chance to try several apps available in
extras-devel.

That included some SDL games that just showed how slow I'm getting, but
that's not the point of this email. :)

There were plenty of packages unable to install due to missing
dependencies: all of them Python based. I sent emails to the maintainers
(it would be better to file bugs in bugs.maemo.org, maybe we can add a
'misc' component for these, so at elast we could mail the maintainers
with a link to bugzilla instead of a purely private message?).

The answers from the maintainers were similar:

- They didn't know about these missing dependencies as the packages work
on their local systems (where I guess such dependencies are satisfied).

- They didn't know the auto-builder would let a package go through to
extras-devel wit dependencies missing.

- Some didn't know where the "python-support (>= 0.90.0)" dependency
actually came from.

- Plus other questions about Python bindings that, as the user I am, I
have no clue about. Again, filing bugs makes easier to help them since
all the discussion is public and others can jump in and help. Or in this
thread here. Or...

fwiw the dependencies missing included osso-gnomevfs-extra,
python2.5-hildondesktop, python-mokoui & python-support >=0.90.0.

-- 
Quim Gil
open source advocate
Maemo Software @ Nokia