[Bug 829186] Re: Mixes static and GI library bindings

[Martin Pitt]

I have the GTK UI side of the u1-control-panel fixed in lp:~pitti
/ubuntuone-control-panel/mix-static-gi, but bin/ubuntuone-control-panel-
backend is harder: it uses

   from gi.repository import Soup, SoupGNOME

which includes GObject. I'm not sure whether this could just be changed
to use httplib instead, needs input from the U1 team , I'm afraid.

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Title:
  Mixes static and GI library bindings

Status in “oneconf” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in “ubuntuone-control-panel” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  This is a tracking bug for fixing programs which will crash with a
  newer pygobject >= 2.90. This is now absolutely zero tolerant against
  importing both the static and the GI version of a particular library.
  This was mostly the case with 2.28 as well, but did work in some cases
  (like "import gobject; from gi.repository import Gtk", in particular
  for "glib" and "gobject"). These now cause errors as well.

  See bug 828751 for some more information for this.

  $ ubuntuone-control-panel-gtk
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/ubuntuone-control-panel-gtk", line 33, in <module>
      from ubuntuone.controlpanel.gui.gtk import main
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntuone-control-panel/ubuntuone/controlpanel/gui/gtk/__init__.py", line 28, in <module>
      from ubuntuone.controlpanel.gui.gtk.gui import main
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntuone-control-panel/ubuntuone/controlpanel/gui/gtk/gui.py", line 39, in <module>
      from gi.repository import GLib
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
      from ._gi import _API, Repository
  ImportError: could not import gobject (error was: ImportError('When using gi.repository you must not import static modules like "gobject". Please change all occurrences of "import gobject" to "from gi.repository import GObject".',))

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