Oneiric package built against old Gnome2 libraries, package unusable

[Emilien Klein]

Thanks Matthias for taking the time to respond and direct me to the right place.
I'm sorry if I misread the description of the ubuntu-archive team.

Have a nice day,
    +Emilien

2011/9/12 Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com>:
> This is not the correct way to report/ask for an issue. It has nothing to do
> with ubuntu-archive.
>
> You did file the report for the *upstream* project, it didn't show up in Ubuntu.
> Now done. A better place might be to ask on ubuntu-devel-discuss. Ubuntu doesn't
> know about binNMUs, so this has to be re-uploaded with no changes.
>
>  Matthias
>
> On 09/11/2011 02:15 PM, Emilien Klein wrote:
>> Hey admins,
>>
>> Has anbody an idea about the issue I reported?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Emilien
>>
>> 2011/9/6 Emilien Klein <emilien+ubuntu at klein.st>:
>>> Hi Ubuntu Package Archive Administrators,
>>>
>>> NOTE: if my theory is indeed correct, other packages could also be
>>> affected by the same root cause.
>>>
>>> A bug [0] got reported against nautilus-image-manipulator (a program I
>>> develop and that I also package for Debian): in Oneiric, the Nautilus
>>> extension that is used to launch the program is not placed in the
>>> right directory, making the program unusable since it can't be
>>> launched by right clicking on images...
>>>
>>>
>>> When installing the package from the Ubuntu repository, the extension
>>> gets placed in
>>> /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0/python
>>>
>>> Since Ubuntu is now using the new Gnome3 libraries (or environment, or
>>> whatever it's called), the extension should instead be located in
>>> /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/python
>>>
>>>
>>> The place where the extension is to be set is determined in the
>>> setup.py [1] file, by running (needs the python-nautilus package
>>> installed)
>>>    pkg-config --variable=pythondir nautilus-python
>>>
>>> In my copy of Oneiric beta 1, this command correctly returns the "3.0"
>>> folder location. And when I build the package manually in Oneiric, the
>>> resulting .deb correctly places the extension in the "3.0" folder.
>>>
>>> I suspect that when the package got built on the Ubuntu Autobuilders
>>> (on 2011-05-20 08:52:55 UTC) the Gnome3 packages were not yet used in
>>> Oneiric, so it built the package for a Gnome2 environment. I think
>>> that the package should be built again, this time using the correct
>>> Gnome3 files.
>>>
>>>
>>> How can I make sure the package is built again? Should it receive a
>>> new version number (in the -nubuntun range?)
>>>
>>> Thanks for reviewing this issue. Also, please CC me on your responses
>>> since I'm not subscribed to this list.
>>> If this is not the correct place to report this, thanks for pointing
>>> me to the right one.
>>>    +Emilien
>>>
>>> [0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus-image-manipulator/+bug/836601
>>> [1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~emilien-klein/nautilus-image-manipulator/trunk/view/head:/setup.py
>>>
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