fetchmailconf fails on first run: can't open file '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/fetchmailconf.py'

[cnom]

Binary package hint: fetchmailconf

Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty) [beta]
Kernel Linux 2.6.28-11-generic
GNOME 2.26.1

fetchmailconf fails on first call after a fresh install from Synaptic:

> % fetchmailconf
> /usr/bin/python: can't open file '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/fetchmailconf.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

There is no directory named 'site-packages' in '/usr/lib/python2.6', but there is a '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/fetchmailconf.py'.

After updating '/usr/bin/fetchmailconf' to reflect this path, fetchmailconf runs without further problems.

[cnom (cnom)]

I suspect there has been a change in the python directory structure recently, because in '/usr/lib/python2.5' there still is a 'site-packages' directory.

'/usr/bin/fetchmailconf' tries to be version-independent by using a back-ticked `pyversions -d` in the path, but the 'site-packages' part is static. Should this be done with a conditional?

[Andreas Olsson (andol)]

I'll be marking this bug as a duplicate of bug #371072. I know this report is actually the older one, but I didn't notice it until after I had triage the other one. If you think there is anything missing in bug #371072, please comment on it.