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revelation: could not import gnome.applet

Bug #70399 reported by ben
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: revelation

i updated from dapper to edgy and know revelation does not start anymore:

ben@chaos ~ $ revelation
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/revelation", line 30, in ?
    from revelation import gnomemisc, config, data, datahandler, dialog, entry, io, ui, util
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/revelation/__init__.py", line 29, in ?
    import gnomemisc
ImportError: could not import gnome.applet

i reinstalled it, but that did not change anything.

See original description
ben (bhaubeck-gmail)
description: updated
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Stefan Voelkel (stefan-voelkel) wrote :

If this is the same gnome.applet is gone bug revelation had in debian, there is a patch available at:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/gnomeapplet.patch?bug=376149;msg=27;att=1

Be advised that the patch is reversed, so apply with -R.

Basically you need to replace gnome.applet.Applet with gnomeapplet.Applet

HTH

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ben (bhaubeck-gmail) wrote :

what i have done:

i fetched the sources with apt-get source revelation

i changed to the directory revelation-0.4.7.orig/src/wrap/gnomemisc/
opened the file gnomemisc.override
and i changed the line

import gnomeapplet.Applet as PyPanelApplet_Type

to

import gnome.applet.Applet as PyPanelApplet_Type

as described here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/gnomeapplet.patch?bug=376149;msg=27;att=1

then i had to install the package cracklib2-dev

after that i made a

./configure
make
make install

and got a working version of revelation in /usr/local/bin

thanks again for your help

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Jérémie Corbier (jcorbier) wrote :

Fixed in Feisty.

Changed in revelation:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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