Temporary bin/lottanzb.py file not removed when distutilsextra fails in build_i18n.run

[Severin Heiniger]

In auto.py, distutilsextra finds extensionless executable scripts which are Python files, and generates a temporary *.py alias, so that they get caught by intltool.

However, if the call to "build_i18n.build_i18n.run(self)" a few lines below fails for some reason, the temporary files will not be removed.

If the user then fixes the problem that caused build_i18n to fail and makes another attempt to install the application, the temporary files will also be installed.

It's probably possible to add a work-around to setup.py, but it would be a better idea to fix this upstream, with a nice "finally" block or something similar.

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Hi, I'm pretty new to linux so if you can, please explain as simple as possible :)
I'm using Opensuse 11.2 x64.

Installed all dependencies, built it, and then when I run it I get this output:

[code]
lottanzb
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/lottanzb", line 3, in <module>
    from lottanzb.core import App
  File "/usr/local/bin/lottanzb.py", line 3, in <module>
    from lottanzb.core import App
ImportError: No module named core
[/code]

Any idea what I'm doing wrong here?

Thanks in advance!.

[Marcel de Vries (carresmd-deactivatedaccount)]

Severin, do you mean the Python project with upstream? It looks like this bug description is incomplete as I can't see anything that indicates this is a Python bug.

[Severin Heiniger (severinh)]

I meant distutilsextra (the one we ship with LottaNZB) instead of distutils that ships with Python.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Fixed in trunk r155.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package python-distutils-extra - 2.16

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python-distutils-extra (2.16) unstable; urgency=low

  * test/auto.py: Make Apport hook test description consistent to other tests.
  * build_help.py: Fix --help-dir option, thanks to Severin Heiniger for
    spotting this. (LP: #508438)
  * auto.py: Clean up temporary *.py symlinks also if there is an exception in
    between. (LP: #490985)
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:48:31 +0100