Bug#303673: gdesklets: Dependency problem crashes shell

[Anne]

Lo=EFc Minier wrote:
>         Hi,
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> On Fri, Apr 08, 2005, Anne wrote:
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>>I manually upgraded various libraries gdesklets depended on, until
>>the crash went away. The one that fixed the problem was
>>omni:~# /usr/bin/apt-get install python2.3-gnome2
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>  This is surprizing, gdesklets Depends on python-gnome2 which in turn
>  Depends on python2.3-gnome2...  What version of all three packages did
>  you have previously installed?
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For python-gnome2, I do not know, and do not know how to find out (if it=20
is possible to). I only know apt-get did not think python-gnome2 needed=20
to be upgraded when I "apt-get install gdesklets". I do not think I had=20
gdesklets installed at all, though I could be wrong about this: I tried=20
it soon after it became available, and had a few problems I didn't have=20
time to sort out. I think I purged it at the time, but I'm not=20
completely sure.

When gdesklets shell didn't work after installing this time, and I=20
couldn't find anything useful via google, I guessed there was a version=20
dependency problem: after all, this is "unstable"! I went through the=20
gdesklet dependencies looking for anything that might be related to=20
bonobo, and ran "apt-get install" for each package to get the latest. If=20
I remember correctly, running "apt-get install python-gnome2" did not=20
update anything. I note packages.debian.org says python-gnome2 depends=20
on python2.3-gnome2, but does not give any minimum version number.

I had come across something via google that suggested the message I was=20
getting might be related to the python bindings, so I then started=20
ensuring anything that looked relevant to python/gnome binding was at=20
the latest version.

Upgrading python2.3-gnome2  2.0.0-6 to 2.6.1-1 fixed the problem.

Hope all this detail actually helps.

Cheers,
Anne.