Re: RFS: assimp

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* IOhannes zmölnig <zmoelnig@iem.at>, 2011-08-19, 11:30:
> > pyassimp.errors.AssimpError: assimp library not found
>
> hmm, it worked for me...:-(
> trying to find words to ask you how and what, i think i found the 
> reason: pyassimp looks for /usr/lib/libassimp.so which is only provided 
> by libassimp-dev  (which i most likely had installed when testing)
> since the findmechanism in pyassimp for dlopen() is rather simplistic, 
> i guess this is the reason why it fails.
>
> thanks for pointing that out.

Yeah, the whole search_library() function could be replaced by a simple:

    return ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary('libassimp.so.2')

(Well, modulo support for non-UNIX-y operating systems.)

> > Also, why did it print stuff on stdout? :/
>
> ask upstream :-)

...

> Q: as a packager, am i supposed to fix such things?

At least your are supposed to forward bug reports upstream. (Of course, 
your sponsor might choose not to upload the package until a bug that is 
particularly severe/annoying is fixed.)

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Jakub Wilk