Hi Adrian,

Did you try 'apt install python-apt-common-devuan'?
That normally comes via recommends and may not always be installed.

With best regards,
b.


On Tue, 2023-09-05 at 02:00 +0200, Adrian Zaugg wrote:
> Devuan is missing the distribution template files Devuan.info and
> Devuan.mirrors in
>         /usr/share/python-apt/templates/
>
> This kills the cinnamon software manager with:
>
> ~$ software-properties-gtk
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk", line 100, in <module>
>     app = SoftwarePropertiesGtk(datadir=options.data_dir, options=options,
> file=file)
>          
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/gtk/
> SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py", line 162, in __init__
>     SoftwareProperties.__init__(self, options=options, datadir=datadir)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/
> SoftwareProperties.py", line 108, in __init__
>     self.reload_sourceslist()
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/
> SoftwareProperties.py", line 605, in reload_sourceslist
>     self.distro.get_sources(self.sourceslist)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptsources/distro.py", line 89, in
> get_sources
>     raise NoDistroTemplateException(
> aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException: Error: could not find a
> distribution template for Devuan/daedalus
>
> The Bug was already reported to Devuan as #33 [1] concerning "add-apt-
> repository" but was never solved.
>
>
> To generate the "Devuan.mirrors" file I quickly hacked a bash script, which
> is
> attached, but I don't know how to build the second file needed "Devuan.info".
> Has anyone built this file already or does know how to build it?
>
> It would be nice if we could solve this bug an have a working python-apt
> installation in Devuan.
>
> Regards, Adrian.
>
>
> [1] https://www.devuan.org/gitlab-issues/devuan.devuan-maintainers.33.html
>
>
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