Missing dependency on python-musicbrainz causes plugin to fail

[Juan Carlos Inostroza]

Binary package hint: quodlibet-plugins

On Ubuntu Feisty, Quodlibet 0.24, python-musicbrainz2 installed.

Steps to reproduce
1- Install quodlibet and quodlibet-plugins
2- Start quodlibet
3- Music->Plugins
4- The Musicbrainz plugin does not show.

Clicking on "Show Errors" Button, it says:
"Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/quodlibet/plugins/songsmenu/brainz.py", line 4, in <module>
    import musicbrainz, os, gtk
ImportError: No module named musicbrainz"

Musicbrainz2 is installed, not musicbrainz.

[Kjell Braden (afflux)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release, especially with python-musicbrainz installed? Thanks in advance.

[Kjell Braden (afflux)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[Endolith (endolith)]

This is still a problem in Hardy Heron.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/quodlibet/plugins/songsmenu/brainz.py", line 4, in <module>
    import musicbrainz, os, gtk, re
ImportError: No module named musicbrainz

[Endolith (endolith)]

Installing python-musicbrainz makes this error go away, so this should be a dependency? Though there is also another package python-musicbrainz2 which does not help.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

python-musicbrainz is a Suggested package. It should be promoted to a Dependency.

[Bobby R. Ward (bobbyrward)]

Closes bug #139008 and bug #158335.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

I don't know the application we are talking about, but I don't think it qualifies as a dependency (nor a recommend, now that they are installed by default) if it's just needed for a plugin.

[Endolith (endolith)]

The package is a set of plugins, and the plugins don't work without other packages installed. It's a dependency.

[Christophe (christophe-wk3)]

And it's still not fixed in Jaunty.

[David Stansby (dstansby-deactivatedaccount)]

There's a patch that fixes this here: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15837957/quodlibet-plugins_20070625-1ubuntu3.debdiff

[Iain Lane (laney)]

What about the other suggests - are they needed for some plugins too?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could somebody send the bug to debian too?

[Andrea Veri (av)]

Added Debian Bug watcher plus removing u-u-s as subscriber, no decision has been taken to what to do now.

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

This was fixed in Debian version 20091024-1 which we picked up in Lucid.