Bug#1081598: cheese: fails to start with cheese-window.vala Parse error

jfp jfp at clearfield.com
Fri Sep 13 06:58:41 BST 2024


Package: cheese
Version: 44.1-1+b4
Severity: grave
Tags: upstream
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

cheese fails to start

** (cheese:22772): ERROR **: 17:49:39.250: cheese-window.vala:1322: Error: <data>:56:5: Parse error: unexpected character `'', expected character `]'
Trace/breakpoint trap

arch has a fix:
fix JSON to make it compatible with json-glib 1.10 
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/cheese/-/commit/165e1e665e9d0a08251dbe16c25a19fb20d22cc5

diff --git a/data/cheese-viewport.json b/data/cheese-viewport.json
index cf03fcec..132b68d2 100644
--- a/data/cheese-viewport.json
+++ b/data/cheese-viewport.json
@@ -53,9 +53,9 @@
   "type": "ClutterActor",
   "children":
   [
-    'video_preview',
-    'countdown_layer',
-    'error_layer'
+    "video_preview",
+    "countdown_layer",
+    "error_layer"
   ]
 },
 {
-- 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.10.9-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages cheese depends on:
ii  cheese-common             44.1-1
ii  gnome-video-effects       0.6.0-1
ii  libc6                     2.40-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0        0.30-17
ii  libcheese-gtk25           44.1-1+b4
ii  libcheese8                44.1-1+b4
ii  libclutter-1.0-0          1.26.4+git2779b932+dfsg-7+b1
ii  libclutter-gtk-1.0-0      1.8.4-4+b2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0       2.42.12+dfsg-1
ii  libglib2.0-0t64           2.82.0-1
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-20t64  44.0-5
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0         1.24.7-1
ii  libgtk-3-0t64             3.24.43-3

Versions of packages cheese recommends:
ii  gvfs  1.55.90-1
ii  yelp  42.2-1+b2

Versions of packages cheese suggests:
pn  gnome-video-effects-frei0r  <none>

-- no debconf information



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