[Python-apps-team] Bug#714891: veusz-helpers: fails to upgrade from wheezy - trying to overwrite /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/veusz/resources

[Andreas Beckmann]

On Tuesday, 23. July 2013 21:19:14 Jeremy Sanders wrote:
> Thanks for the report. I think the error occurs because there are
> resource symlinks in both the veusz and veusz-helpers packages.
>
> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/veusz/resources
>
> Unfortunately, I don't know why the resources symlink is in
> veusz-helpers (rather than just in veusz). veusz-helpers.install from
> the packaging just contains
[...]
> I can only link that there has been a bug in debhelper which has been
> fixed.

Due to the binNMU, the arch:all and the arch:any have been built with 
different python helper versions, and also with different supported python 
versions - while veusz still has support files for python 2.6, veusz-helpers 
has dropped them ...

I think the only thing needed to solve this bug is to rebuild veusz in a clean 
and up-to-date sid environment to get rid of the old cruft. (This has to be a 
sourceful upload because a binNMU does not update the arch:all packages.)


Andreas