[Python-modules-team] Bug#527546: Fatal Python error: pycurl: libcurl link-time version is older than compile-time version

[Ben Finney]

Package: python-pycurl
Version: 7.18.2-1+b1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Attempting to import ‘pycurl’ causes a fatal error, exiting Python
immediately:

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$ python
Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Feb 18 2009, 04:30:07)
[GCC 4.3.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pycurl
Fatal Python error: pycurl: libcurl link-time version is older than compile-time version
Aborted
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The file listings for various file that seem appropriate:

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$ ls -l /usr/lib/python*/site-packages/pycurl*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    42 2009-05-06 23:48 /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pycurl-7.18.2.egg-info -> /usr/share/pyshared/pycurl-7.18.2.egg-info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74796 2009-05-05 12:51 /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pycurl.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    42 2009-05-06 23:48 /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pycurl-7.18.2.egg-info -> /usr/share/pyshared/pycurl-7.18.2.egg-info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76780 2009-05-05 12:51 /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pycurl.so

$ ls -l $(locate libcurl.)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2009-03-15 18:36 /usr/lib/libcurl.so.3 -> libcurl.so.4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 2009-03-15 18:36 /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4 -> libcurl.so.4.1.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 321124 2009-03-12 02:53 /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4.1.0
=====

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (900, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-powerpc64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_AU.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages python-pycurl depends on:
ii  libc6                2.9-4               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3-gnutls      7.18.2-8.1          Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libgcrypt11          1.4.4-2             LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgnutls26          2.6.4-2             the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2     1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-13 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libidn11             1.14-3              GNU Libidn library, implementation
ii  libldap-2.4-2        2.4.11-1            OpenLDAP libraries
ii  python               2.5.4-2             An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central       0.6.11              register and build utility for Pyt
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13   compression library - runtime

python-pycurl recommends no packages.

Versions of packages python-pycurl suggests:
pn  libcurl4-gnutls-dev           <none>     (no description available)
pn  python-pycurl-dbg             <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information

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Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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