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eric package

eric's pythondoc path is wrong

Bug #416577 reported by ilna
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Nominated for Karmic by ilna

Bug Description

Binary package hint: eric

Up to date Kubuntu Karmic is in use. eric package changelog fragment:

eric (4.3.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
  * Change python-doc dir to python2.5-doc.

 -- Gudjon I. Gudjonsson <email address hidden> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:22:20 +0200

But:

$ python
Python 2.6.2+ (release26-maint, Jul 24 2009, 16:18:09)
[GCC 4.4.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

And:

$ ls -als /usr/share/doc/python/ | grep doc
 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2009-08-18 22:01 html -> ../python2.6-doc/html

OK, I have tried to set python doc path in eric IDE, and I have:

cat ~/.config/Eric4/eric4.ini | grep -i pythondoc
PythonDocDir=/usr/share/doc/python/html/

Nevertheless trying to open a doc in eric shows a message: "The documentation starting point "/usr/share/doc/python2.5-doc/html/index.html" could not be found."

Is the path hardcoded?

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ilna (a-gaydenko) wrote :

I have tried last upstream version 4.3.6 (just started eryc4.py) - the issue doesn't exist. Probably the best way to resolve the bug is to upgrade the package.

Must I supply additional info to help with the bug?

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Stephen Schaub (sschaub) wrote :

This issue exists on eric 4.3.7.1, which is the current version for karmic.

The problem appears to be due to the following line in line 4227 of /usr/share/eric/modules/UI/UserInterface.py:

home = '/usr/share/doc/python2.5-doc/html/index.html'

Clearly this is a hard-coded path, and it is overriding the value that the code earlier pulls from preferences. Commenting out this line fixed the problem for me.

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