gi.repository module broken - many objects not exported

[Isiah Meadows]

Both `software-center` and `ubuntu-bug` fail to start because of a failed import statement, all starting with the following: `from gi.repository import <something>`. The offending error messages for each package:

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$ software-center

ERROR:root:Could not find any typelib for Gtk
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/software-center", line 25, in <module>
    from gi.repository import Gtk, GObject
ImportError: cannot import name Gtk

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$ ubuntu-bug software-center

ERROR:root:Could not find any typelib for Wnck
ERROR:root:Could not find any typelib for GdkX11
ERROR:root:Could not find any typelib for Gdk
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk", line 16, in <module>
    from gi.repository import GObject, GLib, Wnck, GdkX11, Gdk
ImportError: cannot import name 'Wnck'

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Here's the output I got from the following Python REPL commands:

>>> import gi.repository
>>> dir(gi.repository)
['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', 'absolute_import']

>>> for i in dir(gi.repository): print(i," ",type(getattr(gi.repository,i)))

('GLib', ' ', <class 'gi.module.DynamicModule'>)
('GObject', ' ', <class 'gi.module.DynamicModule'>)
('__builtins__', ' ', <type 'dict'>)
('__doc__', ' ', <type 'NoneType'>)
('__file__', ' ', <type 'str'>)
('__name__', ' ', <type 'str'>)
('__package__', ' ', <type 'str'>)
('__path__', ' ', <type 'list'>)
('absolute_import', ' ', <type 'instance'>)

The reason I'm filing against this package is because of it being a common dependency.

Some necessary info:

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04

$ apt-cache policy libgirepository-1.0-1
libgirepository-1.0-1:
  Installed: 1.40.0-1ubuntu0.1
  Candidate: 1.40.0-1ubuntu0.1
  Version table:
 *** 1.40.0-1ubuntu0.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.40.0-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

[Isiah Meadows (impinball)]

It also somehow messes with GEdit as well...

[Isiah Meadows (impinball)]

Specifically a plugin of it

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This is hardly a bug in g-i, most likely a failed upgrade? E. g. software-center has a strict dependency on gir1.2-gtk-3.0 which provides "Gtk". Do you have that package installed?

[Isiah Meadows (impinball)]

I don't have this problem anymore.