Treeline Won't Even Run in 9.10

[booksnmore4you]

Binary package hint: treeline

After installing treeline 1.2.3-1 and attempting to run it, it refuses to start due to a type error in treemainwindow.py. Upstream has fixed the application to work with PyQt 4.6

This bug is fixed in the new upstream version 1.2.4-1 in lucid.

TEST CASE:
To reproduce the bug just try to run the application. It won't start giving you a backtrace if you try to start it from a terminal.

$ treeline
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/treeline/treeline.py", line 167, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/share/treeline/treeline.py", line 156, in main
    win = treemainwin.TreeMainWin()
  File "/usr/share/treeline/treemainwin.py", line 234, in __init__
    self.setPasteAvail()
  File "/usr/share/treeline/treemainwin.py", line 427, in setPasteAvail
    text = self.clipText()
  File "/usr/share/treeline/treemainwin.py", line 434, in clipText
    text = unicode(QtGui.QApplication.clipboard().text('xml'))
TypeError: argument 1 of QClipboard.text() has an invalid type

[booksnmore4you (booksnmore4you)]

I discovered the problem. The version in synaptic is old and has has a known issue that prevents it from running http://freshmeat.net/projects/treeline/releases/306601 . Treeline Version 1.2.4 http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/all/treeline/download fixes the issue.

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Confirmed in Karmic.

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Debdiff for karmic-proposed with the upstream patch that fixes this bug.

[John Dong (jdong)]

ACK from motu-sru for debdiff in comment #3... However, please change description of bug to comply with https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

Hi,

Uploaded to -proposed, awaiting for approval.
I made the following changes:
- Update the maintainer field in debian/control to Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
- Update the changelog entry to make clear the updated files.

Thanks,
Fabrice

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted treeline into karmic-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Works fine for me so far. booksnmore4you?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package treeline - 1.2.3-1ubuntu0.1

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treeline (1.2.3-1ubuntu0.1) karmic-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patch.diff: Add a work-around for a bug in PyQt 4.6's clipboard
    support that can prevent TreeLine from starting. Patching file
    source/treemainwin.py (LP: #484322)
 -- Philip Muskovac <email address hidden> Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:21:55 +0100

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Fixed in lucid according to changelog.