AttributeError: When using gi.repository you must not import static modules like "gobject"

[martin suchanek]

Hi,

Within distribution upgrade from 14.04 to 14.10 bet development brach Ubuntu following error appeared:

Processing triggers for software-center (13.10-0ubuntu4.1) ...
Updating software catalog...this may take a moment.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-software-center", line 176, in <module>
    pathname, appinfo_dir=options.app_install_desktop_dir)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/update.py", line 1147, in rebuild_database
    cache = get_pkg_info()
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/pkginfo.py", line 245, in get_pkg_info
    from softwarecenter.db.pkginfo_impl.aptcache import AptCache
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/pkginfo_impl/aptcache.py", line 30, in <module>
    from aptdaemon.client import AptClient
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/aptdaemon/client.py", line 43, in <module>
    _GObject = GObject.GObject
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 62, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError(_static_binding_error)
AttributeError: When using gi.repository you must not import static modules like "gobject". Please change all occurrences of "import gobject" to "from gi.repository import GObject". See: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709183
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
Processing triggers for install-info (5.2.0.dfsg.1-4) ...
Processing triggers for ccache (3.1.9-1) ...
Updating symlinks in /usr/lib/ccache ...
Errors were encountered while processing:

apt-cache policy software-center
software-center:
  Installed: 13.10-0ubuntu4.1
  Candidate: 13.10-0ubuntu4.1
  Version table:
 *** 13.10-0ubuntu4.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Kind Regards,
Martin

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.