Edgy's k3d fails to be removed in Feisty

[naraul]

When removing Edgy's k3d on a Feisty system (during an upgrade, for example), it fails thus:

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Preparing to replace k3d 0.5.12.0-1ubuntu2 (using .../k3d_0.6.6.0.ds1-1_i386.deb) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1394, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1388, in main
    rv = action.run(global_options)
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 955, in run
    pkg.read_version_info()
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 542, in read_version_info
    raise PyCentralError, "package has no field Python-Version"
__main__.PyCentralError: package has no field Python-Version
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
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It looks like pycentral's behaviour might have changed, and it now requires a Python-Version field.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I verified this failure, k3d does not install or upgrade in edgy/feisty. This needs to be fixed in a update

[William Grant (wgrant)]

Not sure how we're going to fix this, but the easiest way might be a SRU to put that field in the Edgy package. Not sure how a fix in Feisty would be done.

[wobx (markus-gebauer)]

temp fix: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/k3d/+bug/64848/comments/32

[wobx (markus-gebauer)]

oh yes that's for removal only, install won't work that way -> compile from source

[William Grant (wgrant)]

On Thu, May 3, 2007 11:49 am, wobx wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 64848 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/64848
>
> temp fix:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/k3d/+bug/64848/comments/32

Or you could use the proper fix in {edgy,feisty}-proposed. That's likely
to work better, and help everybody else.