Re: Request for joining DPMT

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Michael Helmling <michaelhelmling@posteo.de>, 2013-01-13, 11:42:
> I'd like to join the debian python modules team, mainly in order to 
> help getting pytaglib (https://mentors.debian.net/package/pytaglib)

Link to .dsc for the lazy:
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pytaglib/pytaglib_0.3.2-1.dsc

Distribution in the changelog should be experimental, not unstable (as 
the package cannot be currently built within unstable).

Missing ")" in the changelog.

Pet peeve: I'd use "debhelper (>= 8)" instead of "debhelper (>= 8.0.0)".

Typo in debian/control: Pytho2 -> "Python2".

What's up with debian/rules.working? :)

You declare "X-Python3-Version: >= 3.0", but this:
       return "File('{}')".format(self.path)
requires Python 3.1 or later. (Admittedly it doesn't matter at all in 
practice, because Python 3.0 has been never in Debian.)

debian/copyright says "License: GPL-3+", but the following text doesn't 
anything about later versions... So is it version 3 only?

The binary package names should be: python-taglib, python3-taglib. See 
Python Policy §2.2 for details.

Please make sure that the .cpp file is rebuilt from source.

The package FTBFS here:
| + python3.2 setup.py install --install-layout=deb --root=debian/tmp
| Traceback (most recent call last):
|   File "setup.py", line 12, in <module>
|     from setuptools import setup
| ImportError: No module named setuptools

It still FTBFS even when I added python3-setuptools to Build-Depends:
| + python3.2 setup.py install --install-layout=deb --root=debian/tmp
| Traceback (most recent call last):
|   File "setup.py", line 36, in <module>
|     long_description=readme(),
|   File "setup.py", line 30, in readme
|     return rm.read()
|   File "/usr/lib/python3.2/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
|     return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
| UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)

After I worked around all the build problem, I installed python-pytaglib 
and all its dependencies. Unfortunately, it didn't start:
| $ pyprinttags
| Traceback (most recent call last):
|   File "/usr/bin/pyprinttags", line 5, in <module>
|     from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
| ImportError: No module named pkg_resources

So I installed python-pkg-resources, and then I got:
| $ pyprinttags
| Traceback (most recent call last):
|   File "/usr/bin/pyprinttags", line 5, in <module>
|     from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
|   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2711, in <module>
|     parse_requirements(__requires__), Environment()
|   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 584, in resolve
|     raise DistributionNotFound(req)
| pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: cython>=0.16

Wait, why is Cython needed at runtime at all?! But upgrading Cython to 
0.17 didn't make it work either:
| $ pyprinttags
| Traceback (most recent call last):
|   File "/usr/bin/pyprinttags", line 9, in <module>
|     load_entry_point('pytaglib==0.3.2', 'console_scripts', 'pyprinttags')()
|   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 337, in load_entry_point
|     return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
|   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2279, in load_entry_point
|     return ep.load()
|   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1989, in load
|     entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__'])
| ImportError: No module named pyprinttags

Now I'm at a loss. :)

> I would be very glad about a positive answer to this request.

Once the major problems are fixed, I would be happy to add you to the 
team.

--
Jakub Wilk