[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#632045: virt-manager-tui crashes at startup

[Cole Robinson]

On 10/29/2012 08:13 AM, Kacper Why wrote:
> Hia,
> 
> there is still no python-newt-syrup package? I tried installing it by hand
> and it won't install. How do I get virt-manager working?
> 
> # installing the newt_syrup dependency for virt-manager-tui fails
> creating /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/newt_syrup-0.2.0-py2.7.egg
> Extracting newt_syrup-0.2.0-py2.7.egg to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
> newt-syrup 0.2.0 is already the active version in easy-install.pth
> 
> Installed /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/newt_syrup-0.2.0-py2.7.egg
> 
> Processing dependencies for newt-syrup==0.2.0
> Searching for newt-python>=0.52.11
> Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/newt-python/
> Couldn't find index page for 'newt-python' (maybe misspelled?)
> Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)
> Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/
> No local packages or download links found for newt-python>=0.52.11
> error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('newt-python>=0.52.11')
> 
> 
> ii  libnewt0.52        0.52.14-10     amd64 Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - text mode windowing with slang
> ii  python-newt        0.52.14-10     amd64 NEWT module for Python
> 
> 

python-newt-syrup shouldn't really exist IMO since its only user that I can
tell is virt-manager-tui. It's just some convenience wrappers around
python-newt. We should probably just pull it into virt-manager.git to save
distros the effort of packaging it.

But then again virt-manager-tui isn't really maintained these days so maybe it
should just die.