post installation script failing by attempting to compile stuff it shouldn't

[Stuart Bishop]

The post installation script is failing because it is failing to compile 'syntaxerror.py', which I expect is a python script containing a deliberate syntax error for testing.

[James Henstridge (jamesh)]

Here is the apt-get output when installing the package:

$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall python2.4-pylib
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 305kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/universe python2.4-pylib 0.7.20050829-0ubuntu1 [305kB]
Fetched 305kB in 30s (9957B/s)

Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 112984 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace python2.4-pylib 0.7.20050829-0ubuntu1 (using .../python2.4-pylib_0.7.20050829-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python2.4-pylib ...
Setting up python2.4-pylib (0.7.20050829-0ubuntu1) ...
Compiling /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/py/test/testing/data/syntax_error.py ...
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/py/test/testing/data/syntax_error.py", line 3
    this is really not python
                            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

dpkg: error processing python2.4-pylib (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 python2.4-pylib
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Stuart Bishop (stub)]

(10:19:45) James Henstridge: stub: to install the python2.4-pylib package, I needed to delete the syntax_error.py file and rerun "apt-get install python2.4-pylib"
(10:20:04) James Henstridge: stub: and then edit /usr/bin/py.test2.4 and change "from _findpy import py" to "import py"

[KarlGoetz (kgoetz)]

I can reproduce this on my dapper system.

[Barry deFreese (bddebian)]

This package has been renamed to python-codespeak-lib. Needs an update to conflict/replace python2.4-pylib. Thank you.