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Description of problem: the gramps package miss dependency to goocanvas2 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. lauche gramps in terminal 2. 3. Actual results: got the following messages 2013-12-21 13:01:14.722: ERROR: importer.py: line 51: Could not find any typelib for GooCanvas Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gramps/gen/plug/_manager.py", line 223, in load_plugin _module = self.import_plugin(pdata) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gramps/gen/plug/_manager.py", line 255, in import_plugin module = __import__(pdata.mod_name) File "/home/grocanar/.gramps/gramps41/plugins/GraphView/graphview.py", line 76, in <module> raise Exception("Goocanvas 2 (http://live.gnome.org/GooCanvas) is " Exception: Goocanvas 2 (http://live.gnome.org/GooCanvas) is required for this view to work Expected results: no messages Additional info: install the goocanvas2 package and the warning is gone
GraphView is a plugin, so I'm not sure this is a real dependency of Gramps itself. Gramps should maybe have a different error message, though.
Filed upstream bug. http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=7393
http://sourceforge.net/p/gramps/source/ci/maintenance/gramps40/~/tree/README is the read-me file for gramps40. (This user was using trunk/master, which will become gramps41 at some time in the future, but I suppose its read-me is similar, although I didn't check.) It says (in part): The following packages are optional ... goocanvas2: Required for the (user-downloadable) Graphview plugin so I suppose it is reasonable that the Fedora packager did not include it as a dependency. Whether he wants to of course is up to him. I offer no opinions. I will also suggest that as GraphView is a "third-party" plugin, or add-on, that it is supposed to be supported by its author. I only wish it were possible for users to somehow be made aware of that, every time they download one, so that they did contact the author, rather than filing bugs. Oh well.
i think about another option for a long time: package addons, advantage also is, that those addons will be accessible for all users, not only for user, who downloaded them to own home.
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Why not make it EOL of PA?
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