Re: Debian Maintainer application
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:48:28PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
> > Raphael Geissert:
> >> kio-locate: I've even been added to the pkg-kde alioth project so I could
> >> co-maintain it with the KDE Extras Team. In order to build the package it
> >> requires scons, but there's currently a bug which prevents the built
> >> program from being 'installed' (see #459685)
> > According to the BTS, the bug is marked notfound in the current version
> > of scons, if I read it right the bug is thought to be in a kde.py file,
> > isn't that part of kio-locate.
FWIW the information Raphael posted above was correct at the time he
posted it - he'd file a bug against SCons and I hadn't yet had time to
do the analysis required to bounce the issue back to him.
> But as for what I can see his reply is more or less useless because he is in
> some way confirming the existence of the bug but not doing anything at all
> on the subject (might be possible I missunderstood something but I'll take
> a deeper look at it this weekend as soon as I have some free time).
> The kde.py file isn't part of kio-locate (which is written in C++, not
> Python), it is part of the build system: scons.
You've misunderstood something. The kio-locate source code ships kde.py
which contains extensions to SCons for use in its build system. As I
explained in the bug report the issue is that this code declares a
circular dependency which SCons detects and reports, halting the build.
That code has only ever worked through luck.
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