geoclue is dead, please port to geoclue-2.0

[Chow Loong Jin]

Hi,

geoclue has been removed in Debian[1], and the removal will likely hit Ubuntu either in Zesty or the release after that.

Please use geoclue-2.0 instead.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=788279

[David Planella (dpm)]

Thanks a lot for the patch, I'll look into it shortly.

[David Planella (dpm)]

I'm getting this error in Ubuntu 16.04 after applying the patch:

https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/MwtMP6PHnd

This is with geoclue-2.0 and gir1.2-geoclue-2.0 installed.

TL;DR
ImportError: Typelib file /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/girepository-1.0/Geoclue-2.0.typelib for namespace 'Geoclue' contains version '1.0' which doesn't match the expected version '2.0'

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 11:47:17PM -0000, David Planella wrote:
> I'm getting this error in Ubuntu 16.04 after applying the patch:
>
> https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/MwtMP6PHnd
>
> This is with geoclue-2.0 and gir1.2-geoclue-2.0 installed.
>
> TL;DR
> ImportError: Typelib file
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/girepository-1.0/Geoclue-2.0.typelib for
> namespace 'Geoclue' contains version '1.0' which doesn't match the
> expected version '2.0'

Huh, that's really weird. It works in Bionic though. Is it a bug in
geoclue? I mean the filename seems to say 2.0, and the version of the
gir1.2-geoclue-2.0 package[1] is is 2.4.1-1.

[1] https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/gir1.2-geoclue-2.0

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin

[David Planella (dpm)]

I tested this last night on my desktop running 16.04. I've done the quick test on my laptop today, with the same result, after installing Geoclue 2:

    sudo apt install geoclue-2.0 gir1.2-geoclue-2.0

It's been quite long since I touched any GIR files. I would _guess_ it's a bug in Geoclue 2, but I'm not sure how to best confirm it.

[David Planella (dpm)]

(with the laptop also running 16.04)