Bug#972645: gnome-builder does not start without flatpak package installed

[Simon McVittie]

Control: severity -1 normal
Control: tags -1 + unreproducible

On Mon, 07 Dec 2020 at 21:01:38 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 18:01:33 +0000, nodiscc wrote:
> > gnome-builder does not start at all when the flatpak package is not
> > installed, and returns code 255.
> 
> I was unable to reproduce this on either buster or bullseye by removing the
> flatpak package from a fairly complete GNOME installation.

I also can't reproduce this on the following system:

- standard Debian installation (no GUI)
- add xorg, openbox, xdm (with Recommends)
- add gnome-builder (without Recommends)

when starting from either buster or bullseye.

If you create a new user account on the same system (so your home
directory and personal configuration are not in use), can you run
gnome-builder successfully as that user?

> > ptrace: Operation not permitted.
> > No threads.
> > No shared libraries loaded at this time.

I don't see any of those messages, only warnings about the python3-lxml
and python3-jedi packages not being available.

Those look like messages from gdb? I tried installing gdb, but
gnome-builder still launches successfully, and can clone one of the
suggested GNOME projects and edit files.

gnome-builder can't install flatpak-builder without the Recommends, but
degraded functionality is to be expected if you don't install Recommends.

    smcv