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[hardy] deskbar-applet fails to upgrade - pycentral not overwriting files

Bug #204528 reported by Joachim Beckers
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: deskbar-applet

dpkg fails saying:

Setting up deskbar-applet (2.22.0.1-0ubuntu1) ...
pycentral: pycentral pkginstall: not overwriting local files
pycentral pkginstall: not overwriting local files
dpkg: error processing deskbar-applet (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

after editing /var/lib/dpkg/info/deskbar-applet.postinst to add the -v flag to pycentral, it gives:

 joachim@Mackeunnen:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ sudo ./deskbar-applet.postinst
pycentral: pycentral -v pkginstall deskbar-applet
pycentral: reading /usr/share/pyshared-data/deskbar-applet
pycentral: Using python-version from pkgconfig: 2.4, 2.5
pycentral: avail=['2.5'], pkg=2.4, 2.5, install=['2.5']
pycentral: install package deskbar-applet
pycentral: link shared files python2.5/deskbar-applet
pycentral: pycentral pkginstall: not overwriting local files
pycentral pkginstall: not overwriting local files

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Joachim Beckers (jbeckers) wrote :
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workaround:
---------------

temporarily add
  overwrite-local = 1
to /etc/python/debian_config.

result:
--------

Setting up deskbar-applet (2.22.0.1-0ubuntu1) ...
overwriting local files
warning: already exists: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/__init__.py -> ../../../../share/pyshared/deskbar/__init__.py
warning: already exists: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/core/BrowserMatch.py -> ../../../../../share/pyshared/deskbar/core/BrowserMatch.py
warning: already exists: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/core/Categories.py -> ../../../../../share/pyshared/deskbar/core/Categories.py
warning: already exists: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/core/CoreImpl.py -> ../../../../../share/pyshared/deskbar/core/CoreImpl.py
warning: already exists: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/core/DeskbarHistory.py -> ../../../../../share/pyshared/deskbar/core/DeskbarHistory.py
warning: already exists: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/core/GconfStore.py -> ../../../../../share/pyshared/deskbar/core/GconfStore.py
warning: already exists: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/core/Indexer.py -> ../../../../../share/pyshared/deskbar/core/Indexer.py
warning: already exists: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/core/Keybinder.py -> ../../../../../share/pyshared/deskbar/core/Keybinder.py
warning: already exists: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/core/ModuleInstaller.py -> ../../../../../share/pyshared/deskbar/core/ModuleInstaller.py
warning: already exists: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/core/ModuleList.py -> ../../../../../share/pyshared/deskbar/core/ModuleList.py
warning: already exists: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/core/ModuleLoader.py -> ../../../../../share/pyshared/deskbar/core/ModuleLoader.py
warning: already exists: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/core/ThreadPool.py -> ../../../../../share/pyshared/deskbar/core/ThreadPool.py
warning: already exists: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/core/Utils.py -> ../../../../../share/pyshared/deskbar/core/Utils.py
warning: already exists: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/core/Watcher.py -> ../../../../../share/pyshared/deskbar/core/Watcher.py
warning: already exists: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/core/__init__.py -> ../../../../../share/pyshared/deskbar/core/__init__.py
warning: already exists: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/core/_userdirs/__init__.py -> ../../../../../../share/pyshared/deskbar/core/_userdirs/__init__.py
warning: already exists: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/core/gnomedesktop/__init__.py -> ../../../../../../share/pyshared/deskbar/core/gnomedesktop/__init__.py
warning: already exists: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/core/keybinder/__init__.py -> ../../../../../../share/pyshared/deskbar/core/keybinder/__init__.py
warning: already exists: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/core/updater/NewStuffUpdater.py -> ../../../../../../share/pyshared/deskbar/core/updater/NewStuffUpdater.py
warning: already exists: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/core/updater/__init__.py -> ../../../../../../share/pyshared/deskbar/core/updater/__init__.py
warning: already exists: /...

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

the symlinks are relative, although pycentral only creates absolute symlinks. please could you attach the (compressed) pycentral that you use?
is the package installed from the archive?

Changed in python-central:
status: New → Incomplete
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