PPA Package fails to install

[David Murphy]

Trying to install rescuetime-linux-uploader on Intrepid from the PPA results in the following failure:

$ sudo apt-get install rescuetime-linux-uploader
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
rescuetime-linux-uploader is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up rescuetime-linux-uploader (0.90-1) ...
Compiling /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/RescueTimeUploader/gnomepanel.py ...
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/RescueTimeUploader/gnomepanel.py", line 85
    finally:
          ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

pycentral: pycentral pkginstall: error byte-compiling files (22)
pycentral pkginstall: error byte-compiling files (22)
dpkg: error processing rescuetime-linux-uploader (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 rescuetime-linux-uploader
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Elliot Murphy (statik)]

Thanks for the bug report Dave! I'm sorry that I don't have much time to look into this now. But I've just given you upload rights to the PPA, so at least I'm not standing in the way ;)

[hackel (hackel)]

I just experienced this same issue, though I "compiled" the package myself from the release 90 source archive. Looks like there are lots of problems. First, your code depends on python 2.5. In debian/control, set:
     XS-Python-Version: >=2.5

Next, in setup.py you are trying to copy files into system directories! WTF?
     shutil.copy('gnome_applet/rescuetime_16.png','/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/rescuetime.png')
This is completely inappropriate. One should never be compiling packages as root! Instead, you need to copy the files to the install directory, so I commented it out in setup.py and added this to debian/rules:

install/rescuetime-linux-uploader::
        cp gnome_applet/rescuetime_16.png $(DEB_DESTDIR)usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/rescuetime.png
        cp gnome_applet/rescuetime_22.png $(DEB_DESTDIR)usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/rescuetime.png
        cp gnome_applet/rescuetime_32.png $(DEB_DESTDIR)usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/rescuetime.png
        cp gnome_applet/rescuetime_48.png $(DEB_DESTDIR)usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/rescuetime.png
        cp gnome_applet/rescuetime_48.png $(DEB_DESTDIR)usr/share/pixmaps/rescuetime.png
        cp gnome_applet/rescuetime_tracker.server $(DEB_DESTDIR)usr/lib/bonobo/servers/
        cp gnome_applet/rescuetime_notifier.server $(DEB_DESTDIR)usr/lib/bonobo/servers/

Alternately, you could modify setup.py to copy the files to the dest directory specified by the --root parameter. I wasn't sure how to do this, as I've never made a python package before.

Now, the package builds without errors, but unfortunately after all this effort, I get a 404 when I try to log in! Really frustrating...

[Elliot Murphy (statik)]

Hi hackel, definitely lots of polish needed. Care to submit a patch?

[hackel (hackel)]

I'm pretty sure I submitted enough info to make the changes I did, though I would research the right way to do this. I just don't know enough about pycentral or setuptools and how that build process works.

[Matthias (matthias-opennomad)]

I've created a patch following hackel's instructions. Here it is. I also added some mkdirs to install/rescuetime-linux-uploader, which was failing otherwise.

FWIW, the uploader I built seems to be actually uploading to rescuetime!

[Elliot Murphy (statik)]

/me hugs Matthias. Thanks for the patch! I'll review and apply this in a little while.