hwmixvolume in alsa-tools doesn't work.

FavoritoHJS commented 1 year ago

Describe the bug

Trying to run hwmixvolume results in import failures.

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Install the alsa-tools package
Try to run hwmixvolume
...
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gi'

Expected behavior

hwmixvolume to start and show a window.

Additional context

Seems like 2 dependencies are missing:

gi in pygobject3: Already packaged, just needs to be added to dependencies.

pyalsa: Not packaged... I might have cobbled together something that works, though. Probably horrible quality. And yes, those are tabs, sorry.

# Based on "17.27.1.2.1. Python library packages in Nixpkgs" from the nixpkgs manual.
buildPythonPackage rec{
pname = "pyalsa";
version = "1.2.7";
src = fetchTarball {
    #TODO: Automagically determine correct URL based on pname and version.
    url = "http://www.alsa-project.org/files/pub/pyalsa/pyalsa-1.2.7.tar.bz2";
    sha256 = "03bqg9x3xnwcj4dvb1djfy5vbpcxam7f2f8x70hy743xr4hryslg";
};
buildInputs = [
    alsa-lib
];
doCheck = false;
meta = {
    homepage = "https://www.alsa-project.org/";
    description = "Python binding for the ALSA library. CUSTOM WRAPPER";
};
}

Notify maintainers

@AndersonTorres @fps

Metadata

Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the result.

 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 5.15.104, NixOS, 22.11 (Raccoon), 22.11.3339.da26ae9f6ce`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.11.1`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos`

AndersonTorres commented 1 year ago

This program relies on too old Python 2.x release and libraries.

Remember me disable it entirely.

FavoritoHJS commented 1 year ago

oh... no wonder it only showed a dialog in that case though apparently it can support both python 2 and python 3? see https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-tools/commit/fb043847de869cf4d82049e2ac0937819fab78f5

AndersonTorres commented 1 year ago

Well, I can try later.

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