unmet dependency: python < 2.6

[Francesco Marella]

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

$ LANG=C sudo apt-get install pida
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  pida: Depends: python (< 2.6) but 2.6.1-0ubuntu3 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

[Jonathan Gibert (jokot3)]

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

the dependancy is also (?) unmet if both 2.5 and 2.6 versions of python are installed

$ LANG=C sudo apt-get install pida; LANG=C dpkg --list python2.[456]
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  pida: Depends: python (< 2.6) but 2.6.1-0ubuntu3 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=============================-=============================-==========================================================================
ii python2.5 2.5.4-1ubuntu2 An interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 2.5)
ii python2.6 2.6.1-1ubuntu1 An interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 2.6)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package pida - 0.5.1-5ubuntu1

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pida (0.5.1-5ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/rules:
    - Add --install-layout=deb option to build with Python 2.6 (LP: #339550).
    - Adjust dh_pycentral call to make sure dist-package symlinks are available
      at dpkg unpack.
  * debian/control:
    - Update Maintainer field as per spec.

 -- Alessio Treglia <email address hidden> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:14:42 +0100