anyone got working "straw" packages for Hoary?

[Justin Mason]

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Thom May writes:
> * Justin Mason (jm at jmason.org) wrote :
> > I've recently switched from Debian sid to Ubuntu Hoary, and things
> > are mostly working nicely.   One thing I'm missing, however, is
> > straw, a very nice RSS reader application. (It's in universe,
> > but gives a "straw: Depends: python (< 2.4) but 2.4-0ubuntu4 is to be
> > installed" error on apt-get install.)
> > 
> Hey dude,
> glad you like Ubuntu :-)
> I'm looking at straw currently, since I've been meaning to go back to it.
> I'll try and get something uploaded to universe this evening

Hi Thom!

thanks!

yep, I like it ;)  I had a little reticence about switching from a
mostly-KDE to a mostly-GNOME desktop, but it works seamlessly enough --
the integration between the two DEs now works very nicely, and they've
fixed the bug that made it impossible to replace metacity with sawfish, so
I'm a happy camper.   (It helps that I run both the GNOME *and* KDE panels
anyway ;)

I did the sid->hoary apt-get dist-upgrade trick btw.  nothing serious
cropped up, and everything was easily fixable.

BTW one possible thing that might be worth noting as a "distro thing"
rather than a single-package thing -- I found when I was attempting to
build straw 0.25.1 that there were a lot of dependency packages required,
and it was quite tricky to determine what the apt package's name would be,
from the requested Python package's name.  in other words, it's not
like perl, where a request for Mail::Audit means that you need to
install libmail-audit-perl -- which, while obscure, is at least logical.

Instead, to resolve a request for the python package "GObject", I had to
go grepping through apt-cache search looking for GNOME/GTK+/glib-related
python packages, and install a few "-dev" ones. This probably wouldn't
have been an issue with a working apt-gettable package of course, but to a
newbie at building python apps, it was quite tricky.

I'm not quite sure what can be done here, since I think most of these are
coming via universe, and I don't yet know what Ubuntu's policy is on
renaming debian packages in Ubuntu.   But if possible, it might help
if some "pseudo-packages" are created using something like the perl
convention, which simply result in installing the correctly-named
"python-foo-dev" package -- similar to how the ubuntu-calendar package
works?  that, in my opinion, would help...

- --j.
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