Bug#69969: I can't figure out how to do what I want to do.
Package: dpkg-python Version: 0.1-4 Hi there! Thank you all very much for Debian, which is the best thing going due to its hard-working package maintainers and its sophisticated package tools! I'm a developer of Mojo Nation, a new open source distributed file- sharing system (http://mojohackers.org/). I want to integrate our software with Debian, and I downloaded dpkg-python to that end, hoping to find a method that takes a file as argument and returns a dict mapping from fieldname to value. I read a lot of the dpkg-python code and experimented a bit, calling various `parse()' methods on my .deb files. I couldn't find one that did what I wanted, and there wasn't any README, example usage code, or in-line comments that I could find, so I gave up. Hopefully dpkg-perl will have some doco indicating how to get the data that I want! Then I'll mung it real quick to output something that looks just like the repr() of a Python dict, which is the format I need. :-) Anyway, before I go look at dpkg-perl, I thought that I should submit a bug report. Regards, Zooko P.S. I really spent a long time on this. I've tried many variations of passing `dpkg_packages.read' as the second argument to `tar.parse_file()' and other experiments. And I'm not inexperienced with Python nor (usually) am I slow to understand.
I'm trying experimental packages for 2.1
hon2-tk has been unpacked in this run ! Only configuring it once. Setting up python-elisp (2.1.1-0) ... install/python-elisp: ignoring emacsen flavor emacs. install/python-elisp: byte-compiling for xemacs21...done. dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python-xmlbase: python-xmlbase depends on libxmltok1; however: Package libxmltok1 is not installed. dpkg: error processing python-xmlbase (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python: python depends on libssl09; however: Package libssl09 is not installed. dpkg: error processing python (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python-tk: python-tk depends on python-base (= 1.5.2-16); however: Package python-base is not installed. dpkg: error processing python-tk (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of reportbug: reportbug depends on python-base (>= 1.5.2-4); however: Package python-base is not installed. dpkg: error processing reportbug (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python2-dev: python2-dev depends on python2-base (= 2.0.1-1); however: Package python2-base is not installed. dpkg: error processing python2-dev (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python2-tk: python2-tk depends on python2-base (= 2.0.1-1); however: Package python2-base is not installed. dpkg: error processing python2-tk (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python-dev: python-dev depends on python (= 2.1.1-0); however: Package python is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing python-dev (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python-regrtest: python-regrtest depends on python (= 2.1.1-0); however: Package python is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing python-regrtest (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: python-xmlbase python python-tk reportbug python2-dev python2-tk python-dev python-regrtest --- end included transcript Okay after resolving the dependencies on libxmltok1 and libssl09 and then re installing with --auto-deconfigure, then it installs, but: --- begin included transcript HACK imp:~/playground/evil-SF-unstable$ python Python 2.1.1 (#1, Sep 6 2001, 16:59:13) [GCC 2.95.4 20010319 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import math Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? ImportError: No module named math >>> --- end included transcript Hm. It isn't immediately obvious to me what's wrong, and I need to go babysit now, so that's the show-stopper for today. Thanks a lot for packaging Python for Debian! Regards, Zooko http://zooko.com/
