This bug was fixed in the package python2.6 - 2.6.6~rc1-1ubuntu1

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python2.6 (2.6.6~rc1-1ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
    - Regenerate the control file.

python2.6 (2.6.6~rc1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Python 2.6.6 release candidate 1.
    - Fix issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple
      'User-agent: *' entries, consider the first one.
    - Fix issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
    - Fix issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than
      sys.maxsize is passed to bytearray.
    - Fix issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
    - Fix ssue #8447: Make distutils.sysconfig follow symlinks in the path to
      the interpreter executable.  This fixes a failure of test_httpservers
      on OS X.
    - Fix issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard
      library when using the -3 flag.
    - Fix issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
    - Fix issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for
      symbolic links across devices.
    - Fix issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in
      http.cookies.
    - Fix issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
    - Fix isssue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
      in the top-level debugged frame.
    - Fix issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
      in doctests.
    - Fix issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
      if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
    - Fix issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
      been reassigned.
    - Fix issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
      a breakpoint command.
    - Fix issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
      or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
    - Fix issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
    - Fix issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
      http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
    - Fix issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
      when sys.stdout is reassigned.
    - Fix issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
    - Fix issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
      string when Unicode was previously output.
    - Fix issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration
      and regular reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning
      incorrect results.
    - Fix issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
      newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command
      line.
    - Fix issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd
      if an error is raised.
    - Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
    - Fix issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal
      Python use only.
  * Fix detection of ffi.h header file. Closes: #591408.
  * Move '/usr/local/.../dist-packages' before '/usr/lib/.../dist-packages'
    in sys.path. Closes: #588342.
  * python2-6-dev: Depend on libssl-dev. LP: #611845.
  * Disable the profiled build on sparc64. Closes: #591720.

python2.6 (2.6.5+20100730-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Update to 20100730, taken from the 2.6 release branch (r83307).
    - Fix issue #9422:  Fix memory leak when re-initializing a
      struct.Struct object.
    - Fix issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM)
      in the io library.
    - Fix issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods
      of utf-8-sig and utf-16 incremental encoders.
    - Fix issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with
      a / in the parameters.
    - Fix issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends
      with = whereas getopt doesn't except a value.
    - Fix issue #5395: check that array.fromfile() re-raises an IOError
      instead of replacing it with EOFError.
    - Fix issue #9277: Struct module: standard bool packing was incorrect
      if char is unsigned.
    - Fix issue #1555570: correctly handle a \r\n that is split
      by the read buffer.
    - Fix issue #7846: limit fnmatch pattern cache to _MAXCACHE=100 entries.
    - Fix Decimal speed issue; backport from 2.7.
  * Fix issue #7567: PyCurses_setupterm: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
    Closes: #586433.
  * Move '/usr/local/.../dist-packages' before '/usr/lib/.../dist-packages'
    in sys.path. Closes: #588342.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden>   Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:03:08 +0200