Comment 3 for bug 692703

here all commits that had somehow remotely to do with fixing this in the end:

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revno: 256
fixes bug(s): https://launchpad.net/bugs/692703
committer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
branch nick: ntrack
timestamp: Tue 2010-12-21 01:26:57 +0100
message:
  gobject: ship a python wrapper as mtest-gmonitor-py as part of check_PROGRAMS
  - introduce a convenience -py wrapper that sets PYTHONPATH properly for in-source builds
  - final fix for lp:692703
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revno: 255
committer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
branch nick: ntrack
timestamp: Tue 2010-12-21 01:17:16 +0100
message:
  BUILD: enable maintainer mode by default so make dist doesnt fail
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revno: 254
committer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
branch nick: ntrack
timestamp: Tue 2010-12-21 00:54:17 +0100
message:
  gobject: add license for gobject/pyntrack-module.c
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revno: 253
committer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
branch nick: ntrack
timestamp: Tue 2010-12-21 00:50:29 +0100
message:
  gobject: explicitly link tests against libntrack.la since they now use ntrack_init directly
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revno: 252
committer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
branch nick: ntrack
timestamp: Tue 2010-12-21 00:50:17 +0100
message:
  glib: explicitly link tests against libntrack.la since they now use ntrack_init directly
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revno: 251
committer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
branch nick: ntrack
timestamp: Tue 2010-12-21 00:48:23 +0100
message:
  common: enable MAINTAINER_MODE define in common/Makefile.am for ntrack.c
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revno: 250
committer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
branch nick: ntrack
timestamp: Tue 2010-12-21 00:43:03 +0100
message:
  gobject: extend python monitor test to make use of ntrack_init
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revno: 249
committer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
branch nick: ntrack
timestamp: Tue 2010-12-21 00:41:36 +0100
message:
  object: rename pyntrack-module exception type to NtrackException
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revno: 248
committer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
branch nick: ntrack
timestamp: Tue 2010-12-21 00:26:21 +0100
message:
  gobject: add a wrapped ntrack_init func to pyntrack module that sys.argv as argument
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revno: 247
committer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
branch nick: ntrack
timestamp: Tue 2010-12-21 00:07:35 +0100
message:
  modules: link ntrack-libnl1.la and ntrack-libnl2.la against ../common/libntrack.la to make python module loader happy
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revno: 246
committer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
branch nick: ntrack
timestamp: Tue 2010-12-21 00:05:13 +0100
message:
  modules: drop trailing / from ntrackmodulesdir definition
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revno: 245
committer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
branch nick: ntrack
timestamp: Mon 2010-12-20 21:27:45 +0100
message:
  BUILD: build modules/ after common/ source and allow modules/ to depend on common/
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revno: 244
committer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
branch nick: ntrack
timestamp: Mon 2010-12-20 21:24:31 +0100
message:
  qt4: make test use QNtrack::init
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revno: 243
committer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
branch nick: ntrack
timestamp: Mon 2010-12-20 21:24:01 +0100
message:
  qt4: add QNtrack::init as wrapper for ntrack_init to API
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revno: 242
committer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
branch nick: ntrack
timestamp: Mon 2010-12-20 21:22:02 +0100
message:
  gobject: make tests use ntrack_init
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revno: 241
committer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
branch nick: ntrack
timestamp: Mon 2010-12-20 21:21:52 +0100
message:
  glib: make tests use ntrack_init
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revno: 240
committer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
branch nick: ntrack
timestamp: Mon 2010-12-20 21:21:39 +0100
message:
  common: make tests use ntrack_init
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revno: 239
committer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
branch nick: ntrack
timestamp: Mon 2010-12-20 21:15:33 +0100
message:
  glib: add license to recyle test
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revno: 238
committer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
branch nick: ntrack
timestamp: Mon 2010-12-20 21:13:30 +0100
message:
  BUILD: enable AM_MAINTAINER_MODE automake feature in configure.ac
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revno: 237
committer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
branch nick: ntrack
timestamp: Mon 2010-12-20 21:10:48 +0100
message:
  common: add ntrack_init function to ntrackbase.h that adds a couple of potential in-source locations to the backend search list iif in MAINTAINER_MODE
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revno: 236
committer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
branch nick: ntrack
timestamp: Mon 2010-12-20 21:04:02 +0100
message:
  common: fix modules not looked for in MODULES_DIR; the plugin search loop iterator got accidentially bumped twice in one loop run
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