Bug 1288802

Although I just noticed the Makefile.am supplied does have a line with a compatibility problem, since it has

overridesdir = `python -c "import gi; print gi._overridesdir"`

I'll file this upstream.

Submitted upstream as http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13746.

Upstream has committed the change in trunk.

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Changing version to '24'.

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David
I have added the upstream tracker item, and poked there as the patch seems not to have been applied yet

David

upstream indicates there will not be a backport ... 

I will hold this open against the possibility of finding time to backport it

alternatively I am considering moving to an inter-release VCS CO build

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Still valid. Any news here?

I submitted two trivial patches to address a build consideration where the "python" executable happens to be Python 3, and to reflect the relatively recent expectations of PyGObject 3. These were accepted into upstream's SVN trunk at the time.

Upstream has indicated they aren't interested in integrating these patches into a point release. If Fedora maintainers feel strongly enough about it, they can simply take my patches and add them to the package's spec.

Change set for both is:
https://www.abisource.com/viewvc?view=rev&revision=35171

I was working on a pull from upstream yesterday, trying to get a clean build yesterday in an EPEL 7 environment, fwiw

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 30 development cycle.
Changing version to '30.

What's the status on this?
It's in upstream's master branch, but it looks like there hasn't been a release for some time. Is a release coming? If not, can we do a downstram patch?

Miro AFAICT this should build with python3 as it's mostly just gobject introspection generated python bits, can you see any reason why it fails?

*** Bug 1787239 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

(In reply to Peter Robinson from comment #18)
> Miro AFAICT this should build with python3 as it's mostly just gobject
> introspection generated python bits, can you see any reason why it fails?

I think I got it working but if you could verify it's correct it would be appreciated.

I'll have a look later. Not this week, sorry.

The package is now Python 3 only.

The python3-abiword package owns the following directories co-owned by python3-gobject-base:

  /usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/gi
  /usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/gi/overrides
  /usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/gi/overrides/__pycache__


It does not require python3-gobject-base, but I see no way how to use the package without it. Maybe it should require python3-gobject-base and only own the following files?

  /usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/gi/overrides/Abi.py
  /usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/gi/overrides/__pycache__/Abi.cpython-38.opt-1.pyc
  /usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/gi/overrides/__pycache__/Abi.cpython-38.pyc


It should be possible to use the new %pycached macro:

  %files -n python3-abiword
  %pycached %{python3_sitearch}/gi/overrides/Abi.py

> It should be possible to use the new %pycached macro:

Got a link to the docs for this by chance?

>   %files -n python3-abiword
>   %pycached %{python3_sitearch}/gi/overrides/Abi.py

Long spec in the commit: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-rpm-macros/c/6c63a5b7f484f3c4b6bee13196561c9b1dff410a

New guidelines: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/940

All fixed up.