Bug#628783: meld: Fails to start: assert gtk.pygtk_version >= pygtkver

[Bruce Stephens]

Package: meld
Version: 1.4.0-2
Severity: normal

meld fails to start.  Presumably this is some local problem, but I've
no idea what it might be.  Running meld under strace -f doesn't
suggest (to me) anything obvious
(/usr/local/lib/python2.6/{dist,site}-packages are empty).

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/meld", line 95, in <module>
    assert gtk.pygtk_version >= pygtkver
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'pygtk_version'

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages meld depends on:
ii  python                        2.6.6-14   interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-glade2                 2.24.0-1   GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gtk2                   2.24.0-1   Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-support                1.0.13     automated rebuilding support for P

Versions of packages meld recommends:
ii  python-gconf             2.28.1-2        Python bindings for the GConf conf
ii  python-gnome2            2.28.1-2        Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gtksourceview2    2.10.1-1+b1     Python bindings for the GtkSourceV
ii  yelp                     2.30.1+webkit-1 Help browser for GNOME

meld suggests no packages.

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