Bug#860523: python-dogtail: /bin/sniff fails to start on a merged-/usr system

[i***@debian.org]

Package: python-dogtail
Version: 0.9.9-1
Severity: normal

Hi!

I have usrmerge installed so sniff will be started from /bin/sniff
by default. It fails like this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/bin/sniff", line 783, in <module>
main()
File "/bin/sniff", line 780, in main
sniff = SniffApp()
File "/bin/sniff", line 65, in __init__
self.app.set_icon_from_file(os.path.join(path, 'share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/dogtail-head.svg'))
Error: g-file-error-quark: Failed to open file '/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/dogtail-head.svg': No such file or directory (4)

But starting /usr/bin/sniff explicitly works.

It looks like sniff is assuming too much wrt. the location of icons
relatively to the location of the executable.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages python-dogtail depends on:
ii at-spi2-core 2.22.0-5+b1
ii gir1.2-gtk-3.0 3.22.12-1
ii python 2.7.13-2
ii python-apt 1.4.0~beta2
ii python-gi 3.22.0-2
ii python-gi-cairo 3.22.0-2
ii python-pyatspi 2.20.3+dfsg-1
pn python:any <none>
ii xvfb 2:1.19.3-1

Versions of packages python-dogtail recommends:
ii imagemagick 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-5
ii imagemagick-6.q16 [imagemagick] 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-5
pn python-celementtree | python-elementtree <none>

python-dogtail suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

[Marco d'Itri]

Control: severity -1 grave

Post by i***@debian.org
It looks like sniff is assuming too much wrt. the location of icons
relatively to the location of the executable.

Since merged-/usr is now the default, I am raising accordingly the
priority of this bug.
This is the last package in Debian still to be fixed.

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

Post by Marco d'Itri
severity -1 grave

Bug #860523 [python-dogtail] python-dogtail: /bin/sniff fails to start on a merged-/usr system
Severity set to 'grave' from 'normal'

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

tags -1 patch

Bug #860523 [python-dogtail] python-dogtail: /bin/sniff fails to start on a merged-/usr system
Added tag(s) patch.

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

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