pyserial failed to upgrade : "pycentral pkginstall: not overwriting local files"

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Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: python-serial None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-serial.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: pyserial
Title: package python-serial None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-serial.list] failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-4-generic i686

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

The error is :
Setting up python-serial (2.3-1) ...
pycentral: pycentral pkginstall: not overwriting local files
pycentral pkginstall: not overwriting local files
dpkg: error processing python-serial (--configure):

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Can you please provide the output of the
following command?

sudo pycentral -v pkginstall python-serial

Thanks!

[Alan Norton (nortona)]

user@box:~$ sudo pycentral -v pkginstall python-serial
pycentral: pycentral -v pkginstall python-serial
pycentral: reading /usr/share/pyshared-data/python-serial
pycentral: Using python-version from pkgconfig: all
pycentral: avail=['2.5'], pkg=all, install=['2.5']
pycentral: install package python-serial
pycentral: link shared files python2.5/python-serial
pycentral: pycentral pkginstall: not overwriting local files
pycentral pkginstall: not overwriting local files

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

This is an intended behavior of pycentral to not overwrite locally installed python modules (easyinstall , by hand, ...) . So, this is not an error in Ubuntu.
You can either remove the version installed by hand or set overwrite-local=1 in /etc/python/debian_config and retry the upgrade of the package

I'm closing this report. Don't hesitate to submit any new bug.