fetchmailconf: fetchmailconf.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

[James Pinkster]

Binary package hint: fetchmail

Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10

fetchmailconf:
  Installed: 6.3.17-4ubuntu1
  Candidate: 6.3.17-4ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 6.3.17-4ubuntu1 0
        500 http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/ maverick/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

When first running fetchmailconf got the following error.
/usr/bin/python: can't open file '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/fetchmailconf.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Fixed by editing
/usr/bin/fetchmailconf
and changing
exec /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/`pyversions -d`/site-packages/fetchmailconf.py "$@"
to
exec /usr/bin/python /usr/share/pyshared/fetchmailconf.py "$@"

[Matthias Andree (matthias-andree)]

Caused by a bogus Ubuntu-specific patch that propagated back to Debian.
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fetchmail/+bug/684228 - and note that this Bug (669066) should have been forwarded already.

[Matthias Andree (matthias-andree)]

confirmed in Debian, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=603861 - please someone mark this as grave bug.

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

Please open task on maverick - I'll process it through SRU.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package fetchmail - 6.3.18-2ubuntu1

---------------
fetchmail (6.3.18-2ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable. Remaining changes: (LP: #685065)
    - debian/init, debian/fetchmail.postinst: don't stop fetchmail in
      runlevels [06], the default 'killall' handler should be sufficient
      because fetchmail writes are properly completed before telling the
      server it's ok to delete.
    - This upload fixes bug with wrong path. (LP: #669066, Closes: #603861)

fetchmail (6.3.18-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix python module path for fetchmailconf (Closes: #603861).
 -- Artur Rona <email address hidden> Sat, 04 Dec 2010 03:07:12 +0100

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

I attached debdiff for SRU maverick. Needs a sponsor for main.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Uploaded to maverick-proposed.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted fetchmail into maverick-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

Test passed fine.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package fetchmail - 6.3.17-4ubuntu1.1

---------------
fetchmail (6.3.17-4ubuntu1.1) maverick-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/04_fetchmailconf_python2.6.patch: Fix python module
    path for fetchmailconf. Cherry-pick from natty/sid.
    (LP: #669066, Closes: #603861)
 -- Artur Rona <email address hidden> Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:38:37 +0100