pycentral crashed with AttributeError in prepare()

[Wrwrwr]

Binary package hint: python-central

Seems there are a lot of similar reports, but doesn't seem to be one about a crash in prepare(), sorry if it's already been reported.

Updating Hardy Alpha4, python-central version: 0.5.60ubuntu4. onboard fails to install with an exception:

Preparing to replace onboard 0.87 (using .../archives/onboard_0.91_all.deb) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1674, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1668, in main
    rv = action.run(global_options)
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1169, in run
    pkg.prepare(used_runtimes, old_used_runtimes, old_pkg)
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 793, in prepare
    self.default_runtime.remove_byte_code(removed_fs)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'remove_byte_code'
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/onboard_0.91_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Feb 28 12:24:32 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pycentral
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: python-central 0.5.60ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/pycentral pkgprepare onboard
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/pycentral', 'pkgprepare', 'onboard']
SourcePackage: python-central
Title: pycentral crashed with AttributeError in prepare()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-8-generic x86_64
UserGroups:

[Wrwrwr (wrwrwr)]

You've linked to an inexistent or hidden report?

After a closer inspection ActionPkgPrepare.run (in /usr/bin/pycentral) doesn't seem to set default_runtime at all, so no surprise it's not set. Copying a couple of lines from another action seems to fix the problem. Attaching a patch (I don't have a good knowledge of python-central, so please check if that's actually the right thing to do before applying ;)