Bug#764380: Came with 0.1.23

[Stuart Prescott]

Dear Stephan,

> fwiw, this behaviour was introduced with 0.1.23. Versions <0.1.23 work
> fine (i.e., it's not a python update that introduced this).
> 
> Hth!

It does indeed help. Thanks for providing a succinct reproduce script and some 
bounds for investigation. A git bisect points at this commit as being the 
problem:

28530e3c1af3aab92f5860c5825ab7fb09e46182 is the first bad commit
commit 28530e3c1af3aab92f5860c5825ab7fb09e46182
Author: John Wright <jsw at google.com>
Date:   Thu Aug 28 20:57:56 2014 -0700

    Drop support for python2.5.
    
    This allows us to do fewer import hacks in deb822.  (Probably other
    modules as well, but I've only touched deb822.)

:040000 040000 f1a7782f9b7e44c6a8d093e3eb226b1d3170c279 
ec23b2a36ec7426e45e1f83b1907c6b6dc3b6052 M      debian
:040000 040000 9fd436000e900cb6096793d62f4651e3afd9f18e 
615391b466fcb203c4ad80dcd4e4b4dbdc0bca6a M      lib

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-python-debian/python-
debian.git/commit/?id=28530e3c1af3aab92f5860c5825ab7fb09e46182


I have to say that nothing in that commit jumps out to me as being the 
problem. 

cheers
Stuart


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