[Create package] Wiican

[Christoph Korn]

Description: Simple wiimote usage assistant and mapping manager
 Wiican it's an user-friendly systray application for use
 and configure wiimote (or Wii remote controller).
 On backend it's wminput , the cwiid event driver for wiimote.
 .
 It tracks if the needed bluetooth adapter it's available and drives
 the user into the process of connect/disconnect wiimote
 .
 A mapping manager it's supplied for edit and create multiple wiimote
 configurations.

Homepage: http://launchpad.net/wiican

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

I took the packages from the PPA as starting point.

Lintian reports these errors:
W: wiican: script-in-etc-init.d-not-registered-via-update-rc.d /etc/init.d/wiican
N:
N: The package installs an /etc/init.d script which is not registered in
N: the postinst script. This is usually a bug, unless you omit the links
N: intentionally for some reason or create the links some other way.
N:
N: Severity: normal, Certainty: possible
N:
W: wiican: init.d-script-missing-lsb-section /etc/init.d/wiican
N:
N: This /etc/init.d script does not have an LSB keyword section (or the ###
N: BEGIN INIT INFO tag is incorrect). This section provides description and
N: runlevel information in a standard format and provides dependency
N: information that can be used to parallelize the boot process. Please
N: consider adding it.
N:
N: Refer to http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts for details.
N:
N: Severity: normal, Certainty: certain
N:

[J. Félix Ontañón (fontanon)]

Since http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts doesn't teach me how to prevent those lintian warnings, i'm going to check how other packages provides the respective upstart jobs.

Anyway it makes sense to me: upstart job files doesn't need to be registered via update-rc.d or provides a LSB-kind header at all.

[Juanje Ojeda (juanje)]

Actually this seems to be not a wiican's bug, but a lintian's one:

http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lintian/+bug/496798

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Ok, I uploaded the package to the getdeb karmic apps testing repository.

I have no wii controller around so I cannot test it.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Package has been built for karmic.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Can someone please test the package ?
http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb/ubuntu/pool/apps/w/wiican/

[J. Félix Ontañón (fontanon)]

There must be some problems with the URL:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /getdeb/ubuntu/pool/apps/w/wiican/ on this server.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Try a mirror:
http://mirror.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/pub/mirrors/getdeb/ubuntu/pool/apps/w/wiican/

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Taking wiican 0.2.1-0ubuntu1 as starting point.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

$ wiican
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/wiican", line 58, in <module>
    wiimanager = wiimotemanager.WiimoteManager()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/wiican/wiimotemanager.py", line 74, in __init__
    self.__bluediscover = BlueDiscover()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/wiican/wiimotemanager.py", line 56, in __init__
    self.__bus = dbus.SystemBus()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/_dbus.py", line 202, in __new__
    private=private)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/_dbus.py", line 108, in __new__
    bus = BusConnection.__new__(subclass, bus_type, mainloop=mainloop)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/bus.py", line 125, in __new__
    bus = cls._new_for_bus(address_or_type, mainloop=mainloop)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileNotFound: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory

In lucid it crashes with this output.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Is anyone interested in a package actually ?

[J. Félix Ontañón (fontanon)]

Wop! Hi Christoph,

Sorry for forgetting about this. I Really don't know about that traceback. It seems to be runned in a system without dbus or something like, isn't?

Anyway, i don't want to cause you any trouble, maybe we can wait for Wiican 0.3 and try to package again.

Thanks for your interest.

[Yoshi (akira44oka-regist)]

I was redirected here to leave a message by J. Félix Ontañón.

I found wiican 0.3.0-1~getdeb1 at getdeb.net.
And I installed it on ubuntu 10.04.

But I had to do 2 more things to run wiican correctly.

1. I had to install "python-ply" separately using synaptic.
2. I have to "cd /usr/share/wiican" to manually change the current directory before running,
    otherwise get error saying:
          Traceback (most recent call last):
            File "/usr/bin/wiican", line 297, in <module>
              wiican = WiimoteStatusIcon()
            File "/usr/bin/wiican", line 62, in __init__
              if not builder.add_from_file(WIIMOTEMANAGER_UI):
          glib.GError: can't open './wiimotemanager.ui' : No such file or directory

After setting above two, it starts running.

But when I tried to create a new mapping file, I get an error saying:
          Traceback (most recent call last):
            File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/wiican/ui/managerdlg.py", line 84, in new_btn_clicked_cb
              mapping_editor_dlg = MappingEditorDialog(Mapping())
            File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/wiican/ui/editordlg.py", line 129, in __init__
              48, 48)
          glib.GError: failed to open file './wiican.svg' : No such file or directory

I still get some warnings saying:
          (wiican:3846): GConf-WARNING **: haven't implemented getting a specific locale in GConfClient
but this is not quite a problem.

Now, this is my question. If these are just about a path problem, then where or how to declare the path to the wiican?

I'm not sure if these could be called bug,
but I hope them to be fixed in the next release.

[mikey67156 (mikey67156)]

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and am getting the same result.

mikey@mikey-laptop:~$ wiican

(wiican:5426): GConf-WARNING **: haven't implemented getting a specific locale in GConfClient

(wiican:5426): GConf-WARNING **: haven't implemented getting a specific locale in GConfClient

(wiican:5426): GConf-WARNING **: haven't implemented getting a specific locale in GConfClient

(wiican:5426): GConf-WARNING **: haven't implemented getting a specific locale in GConfClient
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/wiican", line 297, in <module>
    wiican = WiimoteStatusIcon()
  File "/usr/bin/wiican", line 62, in __init__
    if not builder.add_from_file(WIIMOTEMANAGER_UI):
glib.GError: Failed to open file './wiimotemanager.ui': No such file or directory
mikey@mikey-laptop:~$

Has anyone figured the answer to this. I'm stuck. I've talked to Felix and he directed me here as well.

Thanks,
Mike

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Taking wiican 0.3.0-1~getdeb1 as starting point.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

The prefix was set to /usr/local instead of /usr

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Package has been built for lucid.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Published.

Thanks.

---------------
wiican (0.3.0-1~getdeb2) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Depend on python-ply
  * debian/patches/load_icons.patch:
    Set the prefix to /usr (LP: #501342)

 -- Christoph Korn <email address hidden> Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:13:17 +0200

[J. Félix Ontañón (fontanon)]

Cool! It seems to be a good packaging for wiican 0.3.0.

Maybe shall i ask you to change the homepage reference at http://www.getdeb.net/software/wiican from launchpad to the real homepage http://fontanon.org/wiican ?

And maybe you want to take some of the new snapshots for wiican 0.3.0 at http://picasaweb.google.com/felixonta/Wiican03Snapshots

Thanks Christoph!

[mikey67156 (mikey67156)]

I did a complete removal, and reinstalled the updated deb file (both trough Synaptic, and getdeb). I am getting a very similar error.

mikey@mikey-laptop:~$ wiican

(wiican:1549): GConf-WARNING **: haven't implemented getting a specific locale in GConfClient

(wiican:1549): GConf-WARNING **: haven't implemented getting a specific locale in GConfClient

(wiican:1549): GConf-WARNING **: haven't implemented getting a specific locale in GConfClient

(wiican:1549): GConf-WARNING **: haven't implemented getting a specific locale in GConfClient
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/wiican", line 306, in <module>
    wiican = WiimoteStatusIcon()
  File "/usr/bin/wiican", line 71, in __init__
    if not builder.add_from_file(WIIMOTEMANAGER_UI):
glib.GError: Failed to open file './wiimotemanager.ui': No such file or directory
mikey@mikey-laptop:~$

Is there something I need to remap?

[Yoshi (akira44oka-regist)]

Thanks Christoph!!
I tried the new version, and I see the definite progress.

What changed:
  Now I don't have to install python-ply manually.
  Now I don't have to change directory to /usr/share/wiican/ before running the program.
     so I can run this program by clicking the shortcut in the menu.
  Now I don't have to modify the /etc/modules file or manually modprobing for the uimput to work.
    (I don't know if this is something related to the new update?)

What is not changed:
  After running the program. Trying to create the new mapping, I get an error saying:

   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/wiican/ui/managerdlg.py", line 84, in new_btn_clicked_cb
        mapping_editor_dlg = MappingEditorDialog(Mapping())
     File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/wiican/ui/editordlg.py", line 136, in __init__
       48, 48)
   glib.GError: failed to open file '/usr/share/wiican/wiican.svg' : No such file or directory

With this, looks like the location of wiican.svg is now fixed at /usr/share/wiican/.
So I copied the wiican.svg file from /usr/share/pixmaps/ to the wiican directory
and now it starts working.

I still get some warnings about locale..though it's working.
Thanks again for the quick fix!!

[Yoshi (akira44oka-regist)]

Well that's what I thought... everything is working...
However...

When I tried to save the new mapping file. I get permission error.
When wiican was installed, looks like ~/.local/share/wiican directory was created by root.
and the directory access permission is
       drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2010-09-07 09:36 wiican

no wonder..
So I chowned it to a desktop user. and it's now working.

This also may want to be added to the next fix?
Thanks.

PS: nice wiimote icons, Felix!!

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Taking wiican 0.3.0-1~getdeb2 as starting point.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

The problem that ~/.local/share/wiican is owned by root was probably caused by you running wiican as root. I could not reproduce it here.

@mikey67156:
I could not reproduce your problem here.
What is the output of:
apt-cache policy wiican
?

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Package has been built for lucid.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Published.

Thanks.

---------------
wiican (0.3.0-1~getdeb3) lucid; urgency=low

  * Place wiican.svg in /usr/share/wiican (LP: #501342)

 -- Christoph Korn <email address hidden> Fri, 17 Sep 2010 23:24:12 +0200

[Yoshi (akira44oka-regist)]

Thanks, it looks like all working!!

Well, strange is that I certainly selected "delete all (including settings)" once when I reinstall the apps using the Synaptic,
but did not delete the $HOME/.local/share/wiican directory... that had resumed the problem.

Thanks

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

"Delete all (including settings" means that it deletes configuration files in /etc.
But it never touches your $HOME directory.

[J. Félix Ontañón (fontanon)]

Hi Christoph,

Don't know if this is the correct bug to report wiican-0.3.1 packaging errors. If i'm wrong just point me where to report this bugs:

* Wiican-0.3.1 getdeb packages lacks on hal as dependency and python-yaml it's not a dependency nevemore.
* An upstream bug: udev rule it's installed into /usr/lib/udev/rules.d instead of /lib/udev/rules.d The filename for the rule it's wrong too, the right name it's 99-uinput.rules but it's named 99-uinput-rules

The upstream bugfix has been committed on trunk branch.

[J. Félix Ontañón (fontanon)]

Also, due uinput module i'ts builted into the kernel in Ubuntu 10.10 there's no need for the /etc/init/wiican.conf file at this distribution anymore.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Thanks for the information.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Taking wiican 0.3.1-1~getdeb1 as starting point.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Package has been built for lucid.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Published.

Thanks.

---------------
wiican (0.3.1-1~getdeb2) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Remove dependeny on python-yaml and add hal.
  * debian/patches/172_171.diff: Backport changes from upstream (LP: #501342)

 -- Christoph Korn <email address hidden> Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:07:10 +0100

[trab (roberto-trabattoni)]

I get wiican 0.3.1-1~getdeb2 , I have ubuntu 10.4

but it doesn't work:

roberto@roberto-desktop:~$ wiican

(wiican:3433): GConf-WARNING **: haven't implemented getting a specific locale in GConfClient

(wiican:3433): GConf-WARNING **: haven't implemented getting a specific locale in GConfClient

(wiican:3433): GConf-WARNING **: haven't implemented getting a specific locale in GConfClient

(wiican:3433): GConf-WARNING **: haven't implemented getting a specific locale in GConfClient
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/wiican", line 314, in <module>
    launch_statusicon()
  File "/usr/bin/wiican", line 273, in launch_statusicon
    wiican = WiimoteStatusIcon()
  File "/usr/bin/wiican", line 62, in __init__
    if not builder.add_from_file(WIIMOTEMANAGER_UI):
glib.GError: Apertura del file "./wiimotemanager.ui" non riuscita: Nessun file o directory

it's the same of "mikey67156 wrote on 2010-09-15"
but I don't find an answer to that

what i'm doing wrong?

thx

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Can you try this:
LANG=C wiican