Comment 5 for bug 500940

This bug was fixed in the package python-apt - 0.8.3ubuntu1

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python-apt (0.8.3ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * merged from debian/sid

python-apt (0.8.3) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Alexey Feldgendler ]
  * handle architecture-specific conflicts correctly (LP: #829138)

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * lp:~mvo/python-apt/debfile-multiarch:
    - add multiarch support to the debfile.py code (LP: #854839)
  * tests/test_apt_cache.py:
    - add additional check if provides test can actually be run

python-apt (0.8.2) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * merged from ubuntu:
    - use logging instead of print
    - update distro template Ubuntu.info.in
    - add xz compression support
  * po/python-apt.pot:
    - refreshed
  * po/pt_BR.po:
    - updated, thanks to Sergio Cipolla (closes: #628398)
  * po/da.po:
    - updated, thanks to Joe Dalton (closes: #631309)
  * po/sr.po:
    - updated, thanks to Nikola Nenadic (closes: #638308)
  * python/apt_pkgmodule.cc:
    - add apt_pkg.get_architectures() call
  * apt/cache.py:
    - remove "print" when creating dirs in apt.Cache(rootdir=dir),
      thanks to Martin Pitt
    - add __lt__ to apt.Package so that sort() sorts by name
      on list of package objects
  * debian/control:
    - add recommends to xz-lzma to ensure we have the unlzma command
  * apt/cache.py:
    - set Dir::bin::dpkg if a alternate rootdir is given
      (LP: #885895)
  * build fixes for the apt in experimental
  * apt/debfile.py:
    - raise error when accessing require_changes and
      missing_deps without calling check() before, thanks to
      Tshepang Lekhonkhobe (closes: #624379)
  * apt/package.py:
    - add new "suggests" property, thanks to Christop Groth
    - allow Dependency object to be iteratable, this allows to write
      code like:
      for or_dep_group in pkg.candidate.dependencies:
          for dep in or_dep_group:
              do_something()
      (thanks to Christop Groth)
  * apt/progress/base.py:
    - write exception text to stderr to avoid hidding exceptions
      like "pre-configure failed" from libapt (thanks to Jean-Baptiste
      Lallement)

  [ Tshepang Lekhonkhobe ]
  * rm usage of camelcase in cache.py doc (closes: #626617)
  * grammar fix in the cache.py doc (closes: #626610)

  [ Nikola Pavlović ]
  * fixed a typo, changed "Open Source software" to
    "free and open-source software" (LP: #500940)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:44:30 +0100