Bug#384189: python-gtk2: i can reproduce this bug

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 12 septembre 2006 à 10:16 +0200, Loïc Minier a écrit :
>  That's the bulk of the problem; Josselin: I think the alternatives
>  system doesn't offer any guarantee that any link will be touched, the
>  symlink might not even exist.  Do you think we should consider
>  upgrading existing installs with a diversion based system instead of
>  the alternatives?  Or perhaps drop support for gtk1.2 via alternatives?

I think we should entirely drop the alternatives, yes. How about the
following plan?
      * Remove the alternative in pygtk in favor of shipping pygtk
        in /usr/lib/python2.4, just like the rest of the package which
        isn't python-{support,central}ized.
      * Just ship pygtk.py with the other files in python-gtk2, provided
        by python-support; introduce a conflict with the previous
        python-gtk-1.2 package to avoid upgrade issues.

Because of the way sys.path works with .pth files, pygtk will always be
imported from python-gtk2 first, if both packages are installed. This is
a bit hackish, but it is only a temporary measure until we can remove
python-gtk-1.2.
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