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Description of problem: /usr/lib/python2.5/Doc/tools/mkhowto needs files in /usr/lib/python2.5/Doc/ which are not included in the python2.5 directory. Consider including more of the python2.5/Doc/ filetree structure. specifically the Doc/perl subtree. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.5-6.fc7 Additional info: I ran into this trying to fix pychart in extras-development. mkhowto dies a horrible horrible death unless you include atleast the perl subtree. for example mkhowto defines L2H_INIT_FILE = os.path.join(TOPDIR, "perl", "l2hinit.perl") and l2hinit.perl should be located at /usr/lib/python2.5/Doc/perl/l2hinit.perl
The culprit seems to be version 2.4.3 where the changelog refers: * Tue Jun 13 2006 Mihai Ibanescu <misa@xxxxxxxxx> - 2.4.3-8 - Only copying mkhowto from the Docs - we don't need perl dependencies from python-tools. The tools were created in version 2.4.3-6. Other than the bug cited #167468, there is also bug #177349 that cites pychart and pyx. As it is to be expect I found this bug while updating pyx to version 0.10 and trying to build the documentation there. :-) Notice that the dependency is unavoidable. mkhowto requires always the perl bits because main() calls Job and the call to the perl script is made in the Job __init__ constructor.
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