[Debichem-devel] Bug#577439: python-avogadro: no modules for Python 2.5 on mips

[Michael Banck]

Hi,

On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 08:36:41PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Michael Banck <mbanck at debian.org>, 2010-05-05, 19:16:
> >>On mips python-avogadro does not ship modules for Python 2.5
> >>(which is still the default Python version). Apparently, if
> >>python2.6-dev happens to be installed in the chroot, only modules for
> >>2.6 will be built. Here's an excerpt from the build log:
> >>
> >>| Package versions: [...] libpython2.6_2.6.4-6 [...] python2.6_2.6.4-6 python2.6-dev_2.6.4-6 python2.6-minimal_2.6.4-6 [...]
> >>[...]
> >>| -- [2/5] Python Libraries
> >>| -- Found PythonLibs: /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so
> >>| -- [3/5] Python Interpreter
> >>| -- Found PythonInterp: /usr/bin/python2.6
> >
> >What do you propose we should do?  Hardcoding to look for 2.5 first?
> >That would make it break the same way once the default changes and 2.5
> >packages happen to be installed as well.
> 
> The attached patch should do the trick. 

Ah, great!  I'll wait for the buildd results to trickle in and will then
upload -2.

> I could not test the resulting binary package, however, as it depended
> on python2.5-sip4 (which does not exist).

AFAICT, it's a virtual package provided by python-sip4.  If you can't
install it (I can on i386), it might be an architecture specific bug or
package-relation issue.


Michael