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gnome-gmail package

  1. Bug #906031
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 906031

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Andreas Moog (ampelbein) wrote : Re: Missing pre-depends for python-gconf

It's not the build-depends, it's the *Depends*:

(oneiric-amd64)root@anubis:~# dpkg --configure -a
Setting up gnome-gmail (1.8.1-1) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gnome-gmail", line 28, in <module>
    import gconf
ImportError: No module named gconf
dpkg: error processing gnome-gmail (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gnome-gmail
(oneiric-amd64)root@anubis:~# apt-get install python-gconf
[...]
Selecting previously deselected package python-gconf.
(Reading database ... 52559 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking python-gconf (from .../python-gconf_2.28.1-3_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up gnome-gmail (1.8.1-1) ...
Setting up python-gconf (2.28.1-3) ...
(oneiric-amd64)root@anubis:~#

This got fixed in the debian package that is in precise, from the changelog:

gnome-gmail (1.8.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
  * Added Dependencies needed by GNOME 3 (python-glade2 and python-gconf)