python-profiler for Python 2.6 fails attempting to overwrite python2.5 lib

[Jason R. Coombs]

I have Ubuntu Lucid with the deadsnakes PPA added for Python 2.7, 3.2, and 2.5. I've since found that I need a profiler on my host, so I attempted to install it with "aptitude install python-profiler" but got this error:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  python-profiler
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/29.8kB of archives. After unpacking 188kB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 72747 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking python-profiler (from .../python-profiler_2.6.5-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python-profiler_2.6.5-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/python2.5/profile.py', which is also in package python2.5 0:2.5.6-0~ppa1~lucid1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/python-profiler_2.6.5-0ubuntu1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done

In my opinion, python-profiler_2.6.5-0ubuntu1_all.deb should not try to write to /usr/lib/python2.5.

python-profiler should include the profiler modules for those versions of Python supported by Ubuntu or even better should have Python-specific versions with an alias for the default Python version that ships with Ubuntu.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.