Bug#384189: python-gtk2: postinst/prerm failure: "/usr/share/python-support/python-gtk does not exist"

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 22 août 2006 à 13:58 +0100, Toby Speight a écrit :
> Package: python-gtk2
> Version: 2.8.6-5
> Severity: important
> 
> I get this when I try to install:
> 
> /--------
> | Setting up python-gtk2 (2.8.6-5) ...
> | Traceback (most recent call last):
> |   File "/usr/sbin/update-python-modules", line 246, in ?
> |     raise "%s does not exist"%arg
> | /usr/share/python-support/python-gtk does not exist
> | dpkg: error processing python-gtk2 (--configure):
> |  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> | Errors were encountered while processing:
> |  python-gtk2
> | E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> | A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
> | Setting up python-gtk2 (2.8.6-5) ...
> | Traceback (most recent call last):
> |   File "/usr/sbin/update-python-modules", line 246, in ?
> |     raise "%s does not exist"%arg
> | /usr/share/python-support/python-gtk does not exist
> | dpkg: error processing python-gtk2 (--configure):
> |  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> \--------
> 
> and I then can't install/upgrade/remove the package at all.  Editing
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-gtk2.prerm and
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-gtk2.postinst to change the calls to
> update-python-modules to refer to "python-gtk" instead of
> "python-gtk2" seems to make it work (until the next upgrade).

Is this bug still happening? Where is the /etc/alternatives/python-gtk
symbolic link pointing to?
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