Bug#385909: pyversions: command not found

[Josselin Mouette]

Le dimanche 03 septembre 2006 à 18:48 -0500, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:38:19PM +0200, Julien Danjou wrote:
> > Suggested packages:
> >   python-doc python-profiler
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> >   python-minimal
> > The following packages will be upgraded:
> >   python
> > 1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 212 not upgraded.
> > 221 not fully installed or removed.
> > Need to get 0B/152kB of archives.
> > After unpacking 119kB of additional disk space will be used.
> > (Reading database ... 142617 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Preparing to replace python 2.3.5-5 (using .../python_2.4.3-11_all.deb)
> > running python pre-rtupdate hooks for python2.4...
> > /usr/share/python/runtime.d/python-gnome2.rtupdate: line 4: pyversions:
> > command not found
> 
> Whoops, apparently there's a whole in python policy, packages which use
> pyversions (which is pretty much anything doing bytecompiling, right?) need
> a dependency on python (>= 2.3.5-6)...

No, python-gnome2 already depends on python-support which has this
requirement. I think this is rather a bug in python. The preinst calls
the hooks, while the pyversions.py script is held in python-minimal, and
there is no Pre-Depends: on python-minimal.
-- 
 .''`.           Josselin Mouette        /\./\
: :' :           josselin.mouette at ens-lyon.org
`. `'                        joss at debian.org
   `-  Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom