python-abi and gajim

[Ville Skyttä]

On Sunday 18 November 2007, Dawid Gajownik wrote:
> Dnia 11/18/2007 02:56 PM, Użytkownik Ville Skyttä napisał:
> > Why is it needed?  gajim doesn't install any files into
> > /usr/lib*/pythonX.Y dirs (which is what python-abi = X.Y and python(abi)
> > = X.Y are about) so plain "Requires: python" should suffice.
>
> Without python-abi thing you can install rpm for F8 on FC-6 system and
> you'll get this kind of errors:
>
> /usr/share/gajim/src/dialogs.py:31: RuntimeWarning: Python C API version
> mismatch for module gtkspell: This Python has API version 1012, module
> gtkspell has version 1013.
>    import gtkspell

One way around that could be to install into the versioned python 
site-packages dirs (/usr/lib*/pythonX.Y/site-packages) instead of gajim's 
private ones, that way the automatic python(abi) stuff should work too.