Bug#659097: gnome-python-extras: FTBFS does not build

[Michal Suchanek]

Excerpts from Michal Suchanek's message of Thu Feb 09 09:45:48 +0100 2012:
> Excerpts from Michal Suchanek's message of Thu Feb 09 09:25:24 +0100 2012:
> > Excerpts from Michael Biebl's message of Wed Feb 08 21:22:37 +0100 2012:
> > > tags 659097 + moreinfo
> > > thanks
> > > On 08.02.2012 12:38, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > > > Package: gnome-python-extras
> > > > Version: 2.25.3-11
> > > > Severity: serious
> > > > Justification: fails to build from source
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > The package is uninstallable due to dependency on older python and
> > > > cannot be rebuilt.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Builds fine here in an up-to-date sid chroot.
> > > 
> > > Looking at your apt configuration I can only guess that you have an
> > > interesting mix of stable, testing and unstable packages.
> > 
> > Since you are saying that python package dependencies prevent that I
> > obviously cannot. Only testing/unstable has python 2.7 packages.
> > 
> > > 
> > > What do "pyversions -s" and "pyversions -d" say?
> > > 
> > 
> > $ pyversions -s
> > python2.6 python2.7
> > $ pyversions -d

The builds are both configured for python 2.7 hence no 2.6 extension is
built:

/scratch/gnome-python-extras-2.25.3 $ diff -us
debian/build/2.?/config.log
Files debian/build/2.6/config.log and debian/build/2.7/config.log are
identical