mayavi postinstall depends on python2.4

[Joe Harrington]

Binary package hint: mayavi

I'm on Feisty i386, updated. I just tried to install mayavi 1.5-4. The postinstall explicitly calls /usr/bin/python2.4, which is not installed and on which the package does not formally depend. The postinstall should not call python2.4, but rather just python. It can run python --version to check whether the version number is sufficiently high. Errors follow my signature, but this one's pretty trivial.

--jh--

Selecting previously deselected package mayavi.
(Reading database ... 183384 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mayavi (from .../archives/mayavi_1.5-4_all.deb) ...
Setting up mayavi (1.5-4) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mayavi.postinst: 40: /usr/bin/python2.4: not found
dpkg: error processing mayavi (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mayavi
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up mayavi (1.5-4) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mayavi.postinst: 40: /usr/bin/python2.4: not found
dpkg: error processing mayavi (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package mayavi - 1.5-4ubuntu1

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mayavi (1.5-4ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * Drop debian/mayavi.postinst; python-support already handles all the
    required python setup, and the remaining hand-written postinst breaks with
    python 2.5. LP: #160045.
  * Modify Maintainer value to match the DebianMaintainerField
    specification.

 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:04:01 -0700