can't configure python2.4-minimal without python2.4 installed

[Colin Watson]

debootstrap now installs python2.4-minimal before python2.4, but this breaks:

Setting up python2.4-minimal (2.4-2ubuntu1) ...
I: Configuring python2.4-minimal...
/usr/bin/python2.4: can't open file '/usr/lib/python2.4/compileall.py': [Errno
2] No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing python2.4-minimal (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2

Please move compileall.py to python2.4-minimal, and update versioned replaces as
appropriate.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

python2.4 (2.4-2ubuntu2) hoary; urgency=low

  * Add compileall.py and py_compile.py to the -minimal package, not
    just to the README ...

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:24:56 +0100

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

There are still several dependencies of compileall and py_compile missing. os
and traceback are the most obvious ones (the latter isn't in
debian/PVER-minimal.README.Debian.in either). Is there an easy way for you to
make sure that the minimal module list is closed under dependency?

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

> Is there an easy way for you to make sure that the minimal module list is
closed under dependency?

Not really. Using modulefinder.py you get _all_ the dependencies of a module,
but even those, which are imported if the module is used as a script or those
which are conditionally imported. So you do have manual interaction. For now, I
get the list of modules from the README, so you don't have to list them twice.
I'll add a sanity check later.

python2.4 (2.4-2ubuntu3) hoary; urgency=low

   * Add os.py and traceback.py to the -minimal package, get the list
     of modules from the README.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Can you please try debootstrapping hoary until it works? Building new CDs is a
very inefficient method of testing this bug. :-)

With 2.4-2ubuntu3:

Setting up debconf (1.4.41ubuntu1) ...
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/compileall.py", line 15, in ?
    import os
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/os.py", line 397, in ?
    import UserDict
ImportError: No module named UserDict
dpkg: error processing debconf (--install):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

fixed in -2ubuntu5, including a check for dependent modules. modified two
modules (os.py, optparse.py) to limit the number of dependencies.