Ubuntu Karmic: ImportError: No module named soaplib (after installing python-soaplib)

[nieproszenieja]

Binary package hint: python-soaplib

Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
mateusz@idaho ~/Downloads $ apt-cache policy python-soaplib
python-soaplib:
  Installed: 0.0+svn44-2
  Candidate: 0.0+svn44-2
  Version table:
 *** 0.0+svn44-2 0
        500 http://pl.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

How to reproduce:

Install soaplib library:
apt-get install python-soaplib

Then run python and try to import soaplib:

mateusz@idaho ~ $ python
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Nov 2 2009, 14:38:03)
[GCC 4.4.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import soaplib
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named soaplib
>>>

Workaround (now Python sees soaplib module, I don't know, if library work in 100%):
Type as root:
cp -rp /usr/share/pyshared/soaplib /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/

[nieproszenieja (mateusz-szulc)]

Also affects Ubuntu 10.04.

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

The problem is fairly simple actually. The control file says that the package is only compatible with Python 2.5, but the default for Karmic and Lucid is Python 2.6, so the symlinks don't get added to that version. I just pushed a branch that updates the control file's XS-Python-Version, and will request a merge-proposal/sponsorship momentarily.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package python-soaplib - 0.0+svn44-2ubuntu1

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python-soaplib (0.0+svn44-2ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Set XS-Python-Version for compatibility >= 2.5 (LP: #494704)
 -- Barry Warsaw <email address hidden> Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:33:52 -0500

[Josef Spillner (josefspillner)]

Can this please be backported to karmic? It still stands at 0.0+svn44-2 without the fix.