Forgive me, I'm not sure if you would prefer this as a bug report.

On my fresh n900 (nothing migrated from my n810) after installing gpodder from extras-testing and trying to launch gpodder for the first time it loads up' gives the "please wait/loading settings" then crashes after a moment.

I tried gpodder-backup --purge but the behavior remained unchanged.

trying from the command line I get:
~ $ gpodder
Error detecting libnotify server.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/gpodder", line 153, in <module>
from gpodder import gui
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gpodder/gui.py", line 93, in <module>
from gpodder.gtkui.desktop.sync import gPodderSyncUI
ImportError: No module named desktop.sync
~ $

Please let me know how I can help provide better info.

Thanks,
ashes