[Python-modules-team] Bug#669907: python-cairo 1.3.1 no XCBSurface

[denis doria]

Package: python-cairo
Version: 1.8.8-1+b2
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
Installation of qtile (http://qtile.org/).

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
Trying to use the cairo.XCBSurface fails.

thuck at thuck ~/programming> python
Python 2.7.3rc2 (default, Apr  5 2012, 14:36:30)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import cairo
>>> import xcb
>>> from xcb.xproto import *
>>> cairo.XCBSurface
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'XCBSurface'
>>> cairo.Surface
<type 'cairo.Surface'>


   * What was the outcome of this action?
Not possible to run qtile using python-cairo from the repository




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

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages python-cairo depends on:
ii  libc6           2.13-27
ii  libcairo2       1.12.0-2
ii  python          2.7.2-10
ii  python-support  1.0.14

python-cairo recommends no packages.

python-cairo suggests no packages.

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