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Fix for bug 357884 broke installation of python2.5 when some packages supporting only python2.6+ are installed

Bug #412338 reported by Max Bowsher
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Bug 357884 / version 0.6.11ubuntu7 added this change: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25498595/python-central_0.6.11ubuntu6_0.6.11ubuntu7.diff.gz

This is fundamentally broken - it essentially says "never mind what any package claims to support, just outright ignore it and install it anyway". This should be reverted.

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Loïc Minier (lool) wrote :

Absolutely; I've chatted with mvo at UDS and we agreed that we want to revert this code in lucid. To fix the original issue, Michael instrumented update-manager to test python imports at various points of the upgrade.

Changed in python-central (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → High
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Loïc Minier (lool) wrote :

This typically breaks when installing python2.5 on a system where some packages only support python2.6 (and later) since pycentral will try to build these and fail.

summary: - The "fix" for bug 357884 is deeply broken in its own right
+ Fix for bug 357884 broke installation of python2.5 when some packages
+ supporting only python2.6+ are installed
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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

dh_python2 is now used to replace that deprecated package

Changed in python-central (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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