[Python-apps-team] Bug#911073: gtimelog fails to start with ValueError (`Namespace Soup not available`)

[Michael Schubert]

Package: gtimelog
Version: 0.11.1-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

./gtimelog currently fails with the following traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gtimelog", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('gtimelog==0.11.1', 'gui_scripts', 'gtimelog')()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 484, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2707, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2325, in load
    return self.resolve()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2331, in resolve
    module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gtimelog/main.py", line 55, in <module>
    gi.require_version('Soup', '2.4')
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 127, in require_version
    raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace)
ValueError: Namespace Soup not available


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gtimelog depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.30.0-1
ii  gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1                     0.4.92-7
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                               3.24.1-2
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0                             1.42.4-3
ii  python3                                      3.6.6-1
ii  python3-gi                                   3.30.1-1
ii  python3-setuptools                           40.2.0-1

gtimelog recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gtimelog suggests:
ii  mutt       1.10.1-2
pn  vim-gnome  <none>

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