update-manager needs an explicit path in #!

[anthony baxter]

I did a dist-upgrade from hoary to breezy yesterday, and now update-manager
won't load. It fails with an ImportError of pygtk. Running 'import pygtk' in an
interactive Python works fine.

Aha. The problem is that it's #! line has changed from /usr/bin/env python to
/usr/bin/env python2.4. I (as Python release manager) have a bunch of other
python versions installed in /usr/local/bin (but not a binary called 'python')

As a kinda important system tool, update-manager should really use an explicit
path to /usr/bin/python2.4

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Who am I to diagree here :)

I changed the path to #!/usr/bin/python2.4 in my development tree and it will be
part of the next upload.

Cheers,
 Michael

[anthony baxter (anthony)]

gnome-software-properties (also in update-manager) needs the same love.

Also, gnome-app-install (part of gnome-app-install) and set-default-soundcard
(part of alsa-utils). Should I log seperate bugs against these? The second of
these isn't as important as the first.

I should note that I'm not philosophically against /usr/bin/env python as a #!
line - just not for parts of system software, where it _matters_ which Python
you use.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> gnome-software-properties (also in update-manager) needs the same love.

Both update-manager and gnome-software-properties are fixed with the latest
upload of
update-manager.

> Also, gnome-app-install (part of gnome-app-install) and set-default-soundcard
> (part of alsa-utils). Should I log seperate bugs against these? The second of
> these isn't as important as the first.

For g-a-i I filed #16547, it will be fixed before the release.

I assume that #!/usr/bin/python is ok set-default-soundcard? The script is not
python2.4
specific.

> I should note that I'm not philosophically against /usr/bin/env python as a #!
> line - just not for parts of system software, where it _matters_ which Python
> you use.

Right. That makes sense. Thanks for filing those bugs.

Cheers,
 Michael

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Uploaded:

alsa-utils_1.0.9a-4ubuntu4_source

fix the fix for alsa-utils.