Bug#438920: python-debian: [debfile] @staticmethod SyntaxError w/ python2.3

[dann frazier]

Package: python-debian
Version: 0.1.5
Severity: normal

I happened to have an old version of python installed and got this error.
It doesn't seem to cause any harm - but perhaps there's a way to tell the
package not to try compiling for <= python2.3?

dannf at firetheft:~$ sudo aptitude install python-debian
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information       
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done  
Building tag database... Done    
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
  python-deb822 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  python-debian 
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  python-deb822 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 47.9kB of archives. After unpacking 217kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] 
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main python-debian 0.1.5 [47.9kB]
Fetched 47.9kB in 0s (134kB/s)     
(Reading database ... 232841 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing python-deb822 ...
Selecting previously deselected package python-debian.
(Reading database ... 232835 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking python-debian (from .../python-debian_0.1.5_all.deb) ...
Setting up python-debian (0.1.5) ...
apt-cache Compiling /var/lib/python-support/python2.3/debian_bundle/debfile.py ...
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.3/debian_bundle/debfile.py", line 71
    @staticmethod
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

 
Reading package lists... Done             
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done         
Building tag database... Done    

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-rc2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages python-debian depends on:
ii  python                        2.4.4-6    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-support                0.6.4      automated rebuilding support for p

python-debian recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information