On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 11:21 AM, Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 01:58:46PM -0800, Nicolas Iooss wrote: >> Hi, >> I sent a few hours ago these two patches on the mailing list, by as the first one seems to be blocked somewhere (I have only received back the second one), I am publishing them on Github too, as a Pull Request. >> >> These patches removes selinux-sepolgengui because this application is not compatible with Gtk3, Python 3 (it requires PyGTK), etc. and would otherwise require some effort to update it. >> More precisely, even though ``pygi-convert.sh`` updated the code in order to try making the application compatible with Python 3, PyGI... (in commit 0f3beeb00e7a42cc2f44ef0392b8a3a7566a17d7), ``polgen.glade`` is still incompatible with Gtk-Builder (it would need to be converted). I do not want to spend time converting this file when I see that a bug preventing this application to launch has been present for more than one year. > > >> polgengui.py is not compatible with Gtk3, Python 3, etc. Moreover it >> fails to load at least since the release 2.6-rc1: >> >> $ python2 /usr/share/system-config-selinux/polgengui.py >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/usr/share/system-config-selinux/polgengui.py", line 778, in <module> >> app = childWindow() >> File "/usr/share/system-config-selinux/polgengui.py", line 205, in __init__ >> self.all_types = sepolicy.generate.get_all_types() >> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'generate' > > This particular problem was fixed in Fedora by > https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux/commit/ecd050d12cde54f3d7a31029be8582223d3d6eba > > I must have forgotten to re-send it. Sorry. > >> In fact, this bug has been introduced more than a year ago by commit >> b43991f ("policycoreutils: import sepolicy directly"), which >> replaced "from sepolicy import generate" with "import sepolicy" instead >> of "import sepolicy.generate". >> >> As no one seems to have noticed, this application seems to be no longer >> used. Remove it from gui/. > > > I'd like to ask to postpone accepting this patch for another 2 > weeks. I'll try to port/convert polgengui.py to be compatible with > Gtk-Builder. I'll come back either with patch or with Ack to drop it. > > Thanks, > > Petr Sure, I agree with this plan. I will wait to hear back from you before merging or dropping the patches I posted. Thanks, Nicolas
