On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 02:35:20AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Philipp Kern wrote: > > I'm curious why python-pyme is not sufficient. > It's simply a MISTAKE that has been done by the last maintainer of yum, > python-pyme is NOT the correct python package, python-gpgme is the right > one. python-pyme is fully in python, while python-gpgme is written in C. > Maybe it would be possible to have yum working with python-pyme (I > didn't dive into it, and have no intention to do so), but I think it's > really not worth so much trouble having a special crafted yum that will > be different from upstream, when the solution is to use the correct package. Did you take a look at the source? Well, I did now. Exactly two functions are affected: return_keyids_from_pubring and import_key_to_pubring, both in misc.py. While it was obviously wrong by the yum maintainer to apply that patch to correct the import[0], it should also be easy to port it to pyme[1]. Considering that only few lines of Python are needed, maybe you could concentrate on that. > No new package == no working yum. Re python-iniparse: why should it be needed? There is a ImportError guard in the source so that it falls back to Python's ConfigParser. Paste the error to the bug report and maybe fix the import. Leaving your rant aside: maybe you should just get someone who knows Python to fix the bug. It seems reasonably easy to be and within the scope of a patch that could be accepted. Kind regards, Philipp Kern [0] http://patch-tracking.debian.net/patch/misc/view/yum/3.2.12-1.2/yum/misc.py [1] http://pyme.sourceforge.net/doc/pyme/ -- .''`. Philipp Kern Debian Developer : :' : http://philkern.de Release Assistant `. `' xmpp:phil@0x539.de Stable Release Manager `- finger pkern/key@db.debian.org
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