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albatross package

fails to build: Python 2.6 no longer provides mkhowto

Bug #356684 reported by Colin Watson
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albatross (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Colin Watson
Jaunty
Fix Released
High
Colin Watson

Bug Description

albatross failed to build during a test rebuild of Jaunty. Here's the log:

  http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24883143/buildlog_ubuntu-jaunty-i386.albatross_1.36-5_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz

/usr/lib/python2.6/doc/tools/mkhowto --pdf --a4 albatross.tex
make[1]: /usr/lib/python2.6/doc/tools/mkhowto: Command not found
make[1]: *** [pdf] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/albatross-1.36/doc'
make: *** [build-doc-stamp] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

See http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2003/06/msg00000.html for background. albatross provides LaTeX documentation along the lines of what Python used to provide. However, Python switched to an RST-based documentation system in 2.6, and so no longer provides the mkhowto tool; this breaks albatross.

I suspect that the most practical solution for the time being would be to build-depend explicitly on python2.5-dev and use /usr/lib/python2.5/doc/tools/mkhowto for this.

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lp:ubuntu/karmic/albatross
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in albatross (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
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Alessio Treglia (quadrispro) wrote :

I tried to apply this patch, but without success.

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Alessio Treglia (quadrispro) wrote :
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

I think it'd be better to set PYTHON=python2.5 in debian/rules when building the documentation, and explicitly build-depend on python2.5-dev. I'm looking into that now.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

OK, the other failure is fairly simple to fix too (broken by a change in Python 2.5). I'll do that ...

Changed in albatross (Ubuntu Jaunty):
assignee: nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson)
status: New → In Progress
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package albatross - 1.36-5ubuntu1

---------------
albatross (1.36-5ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Use python2.5 for mkhowto, for now (LP: #356684).
  * __import__ now takes an optional level argument; account for this in
    SessionBase.decode_session.
  * Use --install-layout=deb to account for python2.6 transition.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:22:40 +0100

Changed in albatross (Ubuntu Jaunty):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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