Bug 453299

Could someone touch this?  Of all the media aggregaters available for Fedora, this is the only one (it seams) that will download the podcasts on a daily schedule, keep them segregated in discrete directories and retain their original file names.  This makes it a simple matter to decide which ones to drop and drag into my personal portable MP3 player.   It also makes it easy when I want to refer a friend to a great podcast they might want to download for themselves, for CastPodder retains the original download link.  

The above "rather simple" repair link is now broken.  When I did install wxGTK 2.6, it failed on three dependencies, none of which appear to be clean Fedora rpms.  So, I stopped there.  I have a Windoze version of CastPodder running and I'll keep it going until the Fedora version gets fixed.

Reproduced on Fedora 10.

I just installed Fedora 11 Beta, ran yum update to bring the system to the current level of fixes, used Yumex to install CastPodder and it still blows up.

Here is the console log:

>>>
[eb@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.29.1-54.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Tue Apr 7 05:04:51 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[eb@localhost ~]$ CastPodder 
CastPodderGui.py:50: DeprecationWarning: The wxPython compatibility package is no longer automatically generated or actively maintained.  Please switch to the wx package as soon as possible.
  from   wxPython.wx import *
/usr/share/CastPodder/ipodder/core.py:30: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
  from   sha import *
[<class 'ipodder.players.XMMSPlayer'>, <class 'ipodder.players.NoPlayer'>]
Beep-Media-Player couldn't be imported
/usr/share/CastPodder/ipodder/history.py:22: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
  import logging,md5,time,os,threading,time
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "CastPodderGui.py", line 3700, in <module>
    main()
  File "CastPodderGui.py", line 3691, in main
    ipodder = core.iPodder(config,state)
  File "/usr/share/CastPodder/ipodder/core.py", line 1144, in __init__
    self.feeds = feeds.Feeds(self.config, self.state)
  File "/usr/share/CastPodder/ipodder/feeds.py", line 334, in __init__
    self.clean_state_database()
  File "/usr/share/CastPodder/ipodder/feeds.py", line 763, in clean_state_database
    for key in state.iterkeys(): 
  File "/usr/share/CastPodder/ipodder/state.py", line 227, in iterkeys
    return self.__shelf.iterkeys()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/_abcoll.py", line 337, in iterkeys
    return iter(self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/bsddb/dbshelve.py", line 167, in __iter__
    return self.db.__iter__()
AttributeError: 'DB' object has no attribute '__iter__'
[eb@localhost ~]$

This has been left unanswered since Fedora 7 and bug 246405. It would be better to retire this package instead of offering completely non-working software.


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http://blog.borgnet.us/2006/11/09/say-good-good-night-gracy/

CastPodder has been put to bed, RIP.

After 3 years of coding and its predecessor iPodder being sued by Apple, ripped by PodNova and now the code being miss-handled by distribution packages I have discontinued its development. The majority bitching that I turned it into a commercial product and the rest just plain bitching.

Well I have had enough. Support is now over, coding is stopped and all dns has been removed for the domain name.

Thanks to all that supported and donated to the project.

CastPodder died on Nov. 8, 2006 - RIP 


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If I understand Adam Williamson correctly, a compat-wxPython-GTK26 package for our compat-wxGTK26 would have been needed (or porting to wxPython 2.8)


> Comment 3 by Ewin Barnett

Looks like a different problem.

yep, indeed, IIRC that is the case. I believe I dropped the package from Mandriva as part of my work to migrate it entirely to wx* 2.8 and drop earlier versions of the wx stuff.

oh, wait, I'm on crack. icepodder succeeded castpodder. Last time I touched this stuff was December 2008:

http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/icepodder/current/SPECS/icepodder.spec?view=log

at that point, SVN icepodder worked with wx* 2.8, and worked in development Mandriva (I would have tested before uploading it). So we may have a reasonable chance of success introducing icepodder as a new package to obsolete castpodder, and using the latest SVN code for it.

The request to block this package:
https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/1872

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