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

[Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 12:55:54PM +0200, Michael Schubert wrote:
> ./gtimelog currently fails with the following traceback:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/gtimelog", line 11, in <module>
...
>   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

Looks like a missing Depends: on gir1.2-soup-2.4

> 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>

Oh, also gtimelog 0.11 no longer uses an external email client so the
Suggests: on mutt should be dropped.

Regards,
Marius Gedminas
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