[Reportbug-maint] Bug#585544: reportbug: exits without explanation if python-gtkspell is not installed

[Sandro Tosi]

Hi Maik,
thanks for your report.

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 16:54, Maik Zumstrull
<maik.zumstrull at rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> Package: reportbug
> Version: 4.12.2
> Severity: normal
>
> reportbug suggests python-gtk2 and python-gtkspell, and the GTK UI needs both
> to function. If python-gtk2 is installed and python-gtkspell is not (the
> dependencies allow this), the GTK UI starts and the first few dialog pages
> work, but when it tries to create the first page with a spell-checked text
> entry field, it exits with no visible message. I'm not sure this can be fixed
> with dependencies (it would need a conditional dependency like "if python-gtk2
> is installed, which is optional, then depend on python-gtkspell"), but an error
> message would be nice.

I don't have python-gtkspell installed, but I can use GTK+ UI without
a problem, so I suspect something else is going on here.

Can you launch

$ reportbug --ui=gtk2

from a terminal, generate the error and report the message displayed
on the terminal?

Regards,
-- 
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