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From: Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/13] gnu: Add python2-pygtk.
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 09:30:12 +0100
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To: Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 4:46 AM, Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com> skribis:
>>> >
>>> >> * gnu/packages/gtk.scm (python2-pygtk): New variable.
>>> >
>>>
>>> I notice that most python packages are defined for python 3 and then a
>>> python2 package is generated with the procedure 'package-with-python2'.
>>> Is pygtk problematic with python 3?
>>
>>
>> It has been a while since I did the packaging work for this python2-pygtk,
>> and I seem to recall that there was some sort of difficulty with python3.
>
>
> It looks possible, but from what I can tell, it might require more work on
> the packages that pygtk depends on, some of which aren't compatible with
> python3 or would requires updates to work with python3.
>

I noticed that pygtk depends on pycairo and the home page of the
latter provides two sources: one for python3 and one for python2.
Maybe that's the package causing some troubles.

http://cairographics.org/pycairo/

Thanks for looking into this!
Fede