Patch for python-uniseg attached that fixes bug#30189. Sorry if this is a duplicate, but I can't seem my previous email in the guix-patches archives. Maybe because I missed the [PATCH] in the subject? On Sun, 21 Jan 2018, Ben Sturmfels wrote: > Thanks Gábor, adding zipfile fixes the build and Retux now runs. > > Patch attached and CC'd to guix-patches. > > Regards, > Ben > > On Sun, 21 Jan 2018, Gábor Boskovits wrote: > >> I think unzip should be added to native-inputs. Can you try that? >> >> 2018-01-21 4:46 GMT+01:00 Ben Sturmfels : >> >> Hi Folks, >> >> I'd like to play the Retux game, but while the game starts up it >> crashes >> on me after the "preloading levels" screen. >> >> There's no useful console output, but when running in the debugger, I >> see that the python-uniseg package is looking for a file called >> ucd.sqlite3 that doesn't exist, some kind of Unicode letter spacing >> database that's not present in the BitBucket repository. >> >> python3 -m pdb -c continue \ >> "/gnu/store/57psnlgdyri8phkxzasaf6q0gb8nskpz-retux-1.3.5/bin/.retux-real" >> >> >> See uniseg/db.py:107 and 21. Since it's also looking in the current >> directory, I tried downloading ucd.sqlite3 from the PyPI zip package - >> that fixes the issue. >> >> The python-uniseg package downloads the source from BitBucket, so >> I >> tried changing that to PyPI: >> >> (uri (pypi-uri "uniseg" version ".zip")) >> >> which downloads ok, but fails but the fails at the unpack phase >> without >> any details. Should Guix know how to unpack a .zip? Or maybe I >> should >> coerce the maintainer to publish a .tar.gz? >> >> Currently Retux is the only program that uses python-uniseg (via >> python-sge-pygame dependency). >> >> Regards, >> Ben