simplejson broken in python 2.4 in jaunty

[Martin Albisetti]

I have had simplejson working perfectly until today, where it's now failing:
beuno@dell-desktop:~/canonical/lp-branches/tour-updates-feb-09$ python2.4
Python 2.4.6 (#2, Feb 19 2009, 11:58:39)
[GCC 4.3.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import simplejson
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: No module named simplejson
>>>

It seems to be installed just fine:

beuno@dell-desktop:~/canonical/lp-branches/tour-updates-feb-09$ dpkg -L python-simplejson
/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/python-support
/usr/lib/python-support/python-simplejson
/usr/lib/python-support/python-simplejson/python2.5
/usr/lib/python-support/python-simplejson/python2.5/simplejson
/usr/lib/python-support/python-simplejson/python2.5/simplejson/_speedups.so
/usr/lib/python-support/python-simplejson/python2.4
/usr/lib/python-support/python-simplejson/python2.4/simplejson
/usr/lib/python-support/python-simplejson/python2.4/simplejson/_speedups.so
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/python-simplejson
/usr/share/doc/python-simplejson/docs
/usr/share/doc/python-simplejson/docs/class-simplejson.JSONDecoder.html
/usr/share/doc/python-simplejson/docs/class-simplejson.JSONEncoder.html
/usr/share/doc/python-simplejson/docs/class_to_source.js
/usr/share/doc/python-simplejson/docs/index.html
/usr/share/doc/python-simplejson/docs/layout.css
/usr/share/doc/python-simplejson/docs/module-index.html
/usr/share/doc/python-simplejson/docs/module-simplejson-index.html
/usr/share/doc/python-simplejson/docs/module-simplejson.html
/usr/share/doc/python-simplejson/docs/pudge.css
/usr/share/doc/python-simplejson/docs/rst.css
/usr/share/doc/python-simplejson/docs/simplejson
/usr/share/doc/python-simplejson/docs/simplejson/__init__.py.html
/usr/share/doc/python-simplejson/docs/simplejson/decoder.py.html
/usr/share/doc/python-simplejson/docs/simplejson/encoder.py.html
/usr/share/doc/python-simplejson/docs/simplejson/jsonfilter.py.html
/usr/share/doc/python-simplejson/docs/simplejson/scanner.py.html
/usr/share/doc/python-simplejson/copyright
/usr/share/doc/python-simplejson/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/python-support
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson/tests
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson/tests/test_scanstring.py
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson/tests/test_pass1.py
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson/tests/test_default.py
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson/tests/test_recursion.py
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson/tests/test_unicode.py
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson/tests/test_pass2.py
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson/tests/test_float.py
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson/tests/__init__.py
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson/tests/test_dump.py
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson/tests/test_indent.py
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson/tests/test_encode_basestring_ascii.py
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson/tests/test_pass3.py
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson/tests/test_separators.py
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson/tests/test_decode.py
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson/tests/test_fail.py
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson/__init__.py
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson/scanner.py
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson/encoder.py
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson/tool.py
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson/decoder.py
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson-1.9.2.egg-info
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson-1.9.2.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson-1.9.2.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson-1.9.2.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson-1.9.2.egg-info/zip-safe
/usr/share/python-support/python-simplejson/simplejson-1.9.2.egg-info/top_level.txt

[Brad Crittenden (bac)]

It looks like support for python2.4 in jaunty is not there. On intrepid packages are installed in /var/lib/python-support/python2.4 and python2.5. In jaunty there is no python2.4.

bac@cuchi:~/work/trunk$ ls /var/lib/python-support/
python2.5

[William Grant (wgrant)]

Correct, Python 2.4 is no longer properly supported in Jaunty. 2.5 and 2.6 are.