[Python-modules-team] Bug#654978: default for xdg.Menu.parse causes ParsingError: File not found

[Ryan Kavanagh]

Package: python-xdg
Version: 0.19-3
Severity: normal

Hi,

The default menu parsed by xdg.Menu.parse
(/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu) is not provided by any Debian
package. Some applications, such as xmenud, rely on python-xdg's default
when trying to parse menus. I recommend changing the default menu parsed
to /etc/xdg/menus/debian-menu.menu (this would require adding menu-xdg
as a Depends), or to some other existing menu file.

Best wishes,
Ryan

Python 2.7.2+ (default, Dec 18 2011, 00:33:35)
[GCC 4.6.2] on linux2
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>>> import xdg.Menu
>>> xdg.Menu.parse()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/xdg/Menu.py", line 506, in parse
    raise ParsingError('File not found', "/etc/xdg/menus/%s" % candidate)
xdg.Exceptions.ParsingError: ParsingError in file '/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu', File not found
>>> xdg.Menu.parse('/etc/xdg/menus/debian-menu.menu')
<xdg.Menu.Menu instance at 0xb6dd73cc>
>>>


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to es_ES.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages python-xdg depends on:
ii  python          2.7.2-9
ii  python-support  1.0.14

python-xdg recommends no packages.

python-xdg suggests no packages.

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