package python-vte 1:0.20.0-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

[wook]

during system update

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: python-vte 1:0.20.0-0ubuntu2
SourcePackage: vte
Title: package python-vte 1:0.20.0-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-19-generic x86_64

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

Here is the relevant tail of the build failure. A no-change rebuild does not appear to work:

test -z "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gtk-2.0" || /bin/mkdir -p "/build/barry-vte_0.26.0-0ubuntu2-amd64-Giar54/vte-0.26.0/debian/tmp/main/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gtk-2.0"
 /bin/bash ../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c vtemodule.la '/build/barry-vte_0.26.0-0ubuntu2-amd64-Giar54/vte-0.26.0/debian/tmp/main/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gtk-2.0'
libtool: install: error: cannot install `vtemodule.la' to a directory not ending in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0
make[3]: *** [install-pythonsiteexecLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/build/barry-vte_0.26.0-0ubuntu2-amd64-Giar54/vte-0.26.0/debian/build/python2.7/python'
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/build/barry-vte_0.26.0-0ubuntu2-amd64-Giar54/vte-0.26.0/debian/build/python2.7/python'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/barry-vte_0.26.0-0ubuntu2-amd64-Giar54/vte-0.26.0/debian/build/python2.7'
make: *** [install-stamp-python2.7] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: /usr/bin/fakeroot debian/rules binary-arch gave error exit status 2
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Build finished at 20101115-1107
FAILED [dpkg-buildpackage died]
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Purging /var/lib/schroot/mount/natty-amd64-17bc87b3-7c06-45ad-8fb7-f8604b73ad29/build/barry-vte_0.26.0-0ubuntu2-amd64-Giar54
Not removing build depends: cloned chroot in use
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Finished at 20101115-1107
Build needed 00:06:57, 75724k disc space

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

So, why is it testing for a python2.6 directory when installing python 2.7?

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

Ignore my previous message. I'm seeing a different ftbfs for vte 0.26.0 for natty, for which I will open a new bug.

As the original bug report here was against 9.04 and an older version of vte, I'm removing the tag and setting the status to Incomplete. Does this bug still affect Maverick or Natty?

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

bug 674175 is tracking the ftbfs in natty.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for vte (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]