[Debichem-devel] avogadro-data package (and python-avogadro)

[Michael Banck]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 05:12:38PM -0500, Jordan Mantha wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Michael Banck <mbanck at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 05:28:45PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> >> Michael Banck wrote:
> >> > Probably the binary-fixup/python-avogadro is too late in the game,
> >> > /usr/share/pyshared-data/python-avogadro already got populated with
> >> > example.py.  At this point, I am not sure whether another hack is the
> >> > right answer, maybe we should see about reproducing and debugging the
> >> > reported startup crash?
> >>
> >> You don't need a hack. Just exclude example.py via -Xexample.py.
> >> CDBS IIRC knows a way to specify the exclude pattern either global
> >> or maybe even per package. I'm currently far away from my workstation,
> >> so this is all help I can offer :)
> >
> > I decided to drop the binary-fixup rule and again and just explicitely
> > install the wireframe.py example, as well as shipping the empty
> > extensionScripts directory.
> 
> Forgive my ignorance, I've unfortunately not been able to look at
> Avogardro code for a while, but wouldn't it be best to figure out why
> example.py causes problems and patch it?

I mentioned that in my initial mail above.  However, it is not clear how
useful example.py is anyway (the "Clear molecule" menu item never did
anything for me, and the "Example Python dock widget" is just an empty
widget...), and it seems difficult to reproduce (both Daniel and I
cannot reproduce it right now).


Michael