python-detagshw package fails to install or upgrade

[Iain McNulty]

Release:
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04

Package Version:
python-debtagshw:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.9+git20120320-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
     1.9+git20120320-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
     1.9+git20120320 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages

Expected:
Package should install without problem and update existing package.

Happened:
Warning message -
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 software-center : Depends: python-debtagshw but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

I then tried sudo apt-get install python-debtagshw -
Unpacking python-debtagshw (from .../python-debtagshw_1.9+git20120320-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python-debtagshw_1.9+git20120320-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
 unable to open '/usr/share/pyshared/debtagshw-0.1.egg-info/dependency_links.txt.dpkg-new': No such file or directory
No apport report written because the error message indicates an issue on the local system
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/python-debtagshw_1.9+git20120320-0ubuntu1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: python-debtagshw (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-32.51-generic 3.2.30
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu14
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 26 15:57:03 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120205)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IE:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: debtags
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Iain McNulty (iainmcnulty)]

These logs only seem to date up until 19th October, though I have removed python-debtagshw today in the hope that I could reinstall it but that too failed

[Iain McNulty (iainmcnulty)]

I have run:

sudo apt-get build-dep software-center python-debtagshw

and downloaded the source package to see if I could install it manually but have failed thus far.

The package uses `autoconf configure.ac` and then `make` but I can't seem to get a satisfactory result. Then ran `sudo make install `:

Making install in doc
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/nul/debtags-1.9+git20120320/doc'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/nul/debtags-1.9+git20120320/doc'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/nul/debtags-1.9+git20120320/doc'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nul/debtags-1.9+git20120320/doc'
Making install in .
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/nul/debtags-1.9+git20120320'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/nul/debtags-1.9+git20120320'
test -z "/usr/local/bin" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/bin"
  /bin/bash ./libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c debtags '/usr/local/bin'
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c debtags /usr/local/bin/debtags
test -z "/usr/local/bin" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/bin"
 /usr/bin/install -c debtags-submit-patch debtags-fetch '/usr/local/bin'
test -z "/usr/local/etc/debtags" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/etc/debtags"
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 sources.list '/usr/local/etc/debtags'
test -z "/usr/local/etc/debtags/sources.list.d" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/etc/debtags/sources.list.d"
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 source-example '/usr/local/etc/debtags/sources.list.d'
install -d -o root -g root -m 0755 /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 bash-completion /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/debtags
test -z "/usr/local/share/man/man1" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/share/man/man1"
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 debtags.1 debtags-submit-patch.1 debtags-fetch.1 '/usr/local/share/man/man1'
test -z "/usr/local/share/debtags" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/share/debtags"
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 vocabulary tags-current.gz '/usr/local/share/debtags'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/nul/debtags-1.9+git20120320'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nul/debtags-1.9+git20120320'

I will restart the computer to see if this takes effect