Comment 2 for bug 662423

Hello,

python-guppy is recommended by python-scrapy because one of it files tries to import it [1]:
/
| try:
| import guppy
| hpy = guppy.hpy()
| except ImportError:
| hpy = None
\

As for the not up-to-date package in Debian/Ubuntu, it is due to the Debian Freeze. I have uploaded the 0.9 version of python-scrapy to experimental, as it does not fit to be in squeeze (due to the freeze). I will work on packaging the latest version and upload it on experimental (Debian). Then, a synchronization request can be sent on launchpad asking the Ubuntu Teams to review, and upload the package onto Ubuntu repositories.

If you need any help on this part, I would be glad to give you a hand.

Cheers,
 Ignace M

[1] http://hg.scrapy.org/scrapy/file/8ffd63e657f0/scrapy/telnet.py
[2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-scrapy/news/20100823T164725Z.html