Bug#562904: adonthell ftbfs on armel

[peter green]

package: adonthell
version: 0.3.5-4
severity: serious
x-debbugs-cc: debian-python at lists.debian.org

During the run up to the lenny release python 2.5 was made the default 
and this made adonthell FTBFS on arm(el) with "Fatal Python error: 
exceptions bootstrapping error." 
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=486654 ). While doing 
flyby bugsquashing I took a look at this bug but failed to make any 
headway. I asked on debian-python but the only response I received was a 
suggestion to ask upstream. Since I was just doing flyby bugsquashing, 
had failed to produce a reduced testcase (since I really had no idea 
what was triggering the bug) and I don't know python I didn't make any 
contact with upstream (for either python or adonthell).

Since a release was looming and noone had made no progress on finding a 
root cause (afaict none of the maintainers even responsed to the 
bugreport) I proposed a patch that special cased arm(el) and explicityly 
chose python2.4 on theese architectures. after some minor revisions this 
patch was uploaded by Philipp Kern as a NMU.

Due to the planned removal of python2.4 Moritz Muehlenhoff reverted this 
special casing recently and the package now FTBFS again on armel but the 
soloution used last time is no longer possible. So as Moritz indicated 
in his changelog entry either the issue with newer python versions needs 
to be found and fixed (something I'm not capable of doing) or the armel 
adonthell package needs to be dropped.