Hi Simon and Daniel! On 3/11/20 8:25 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 01:20:56 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'giscanner._giscanner' > > I think this is the python3.8 transition, combined with powerpc not having > built gobject-introspection since #950267 was fixed. > > The powerpc binary for gobject-introspection only contains a _giscanner.so > for python3.7 (which was current when it was built), but is run with the > default python3, which is now python3.8. It should have had a dependency > on python3 (<< 3.8) to represent that, but the correct dependency wasn't > generated due to a packaging bug (#950267, now fixed). > > A powerpc porter might be able to rescue this by doing a manual binNMU > of powerpc's outdated source version of gobject-introspection against > python3.8-as-default, or by building gdk-pixbuf with python3 (<< 3.8) > installed, or something.
Thanks so much for already doing some investigative work on this. I actually wanted to look into this issue tonight but I was out for some hours today so I didn't have the time. I will try to perform the manual binNMU now after dinner. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
