With residual package python-ctypes installed after upgrade, caffeine 1.0.2 failes to load

[soro2005]

After upgrading to Lucid and updating caffeine from ppa (v. 1.0.2-0ubuntu0~ppa15~lucid) caffeine fails here with:

File "/usr/bin/caffeine", line 38, in <module>
    import caffeine
  File "/usr/bin/../lib/python2.6/dist-packages/caffeine/__init__.py", line 171, in <module>
    from caffeine.main import main
  File "/usr/bin/../lib/python2.6/dist-packages/caffeine/main.py", line 30, in <module>
    import ctypes
  File "/usr/bin/../lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ctypes/__init__.py", line 20, in <module>
    raise Exception, ("Version number mismatch", __version__, _ctypes_version)
Exception: ('Version number mismatch', '1.0.2', '1.1.0')

The problem can be solved by removing the python-ctypes package, which, it seems, is obsolete in Lucid and was left over from earlier versions.

[Camille Appert (bibinou)]

FWIW, it still happens on an Oneiric computer because the package was still there.
Seems like a bug on python though, who should "Provides: python-ctypes" ?

[Reuben Thomas (rrt)]

This is not a caffeine bug.