python-autopilot should have python-evdev as a dependency

[Daniel d'Andrada]

If python-evdev is not installed you can get errors like this one:

_StringException: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qml_phone_shell/tests/testcases.py", line 67, in setUp
    self.touch = Touch.create()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/autopilot/input/__init__.py", line 335, in create
    return _pick_backend(backends, preferred_backend)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/autopilot/utilities.py", line 53, in _pick_backend
    raise RuntimeError("Unable to instantiate any backends\n%s" % '\n'.join(failure_reasons))
RuntimeError: Unable to instantiate any backends
UInput: ImportError('No module named evdev',)

[Thomi Richards (thomir-deactivatedaccount)]

Hi,

I'm afraid there's a good reason for the way it is today: You only need python-evdev on the touch / phablet devices. On the desktop, you can use python-xlib. We wanted a way to make sure we weren'tpulling down more dependancies than we needed (especially on the phone). To this end, you can either install:

autopilot-touch

or

autopilot-desktop

These are metapackages which rely on everything you need for the respective platform.

Cheers,

[Daniel d'Andrada (dandrader)]

So if I wanna send touch events in my tests that are run on a desktop I need to install autopilot-touch?

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:autopilot at revision 226, scheduled for release in autopilot, milestone 1.3.1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package autopilot - 1.3daily13.06.05-0ubuntu2

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autopilot (1.3daily13.06.05-0ubuntu2) saucy; urgency=low

  * autopilot-touch only suggests python-ubuntu-platform-api for now.
    It's not in distro and we need that requirement to be fulfilled to
    have unity 7, 100 scopes and the touch stack to distro.
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:33:46 +0200

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

raring has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the raring task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".