assertion failures during installation

[David Ayers]

Binary package hint: roundup

I just attempted to install roundup on the 10.4 LTS release and it produced the following messages:
ayers@topas:~$ LANG=C sudo aptitude install roundup
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:
  roundup
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1177kB of archives. After unpacking 3748kB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Selecting previously deselected package roundup.
(Reading database ... 35693 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking roundup (from .../roundup_1.4.11-1ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up roundup (1.4.11-1ubuntu1) ...
 System start/stop links for /etc/init.d/roundup-dirs already exist.
Starting Roundup HTTP-Server: roundup-server.

Processing triggers for python-support ...
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/roundup/cgi/TAL/DummyEngine.py:82: SyntaxWarning: assertion is always true, perhaps remove parentheses?
  assert (expression.startswith("$") and expression.endswith("$"),
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/roundup/cgi/TAL/DummyEngine.py:103: SyntaxWarning: assertion is always true, perhaps remove parentheses?
  assert (expression.startswith("$") and expression.endswith("$"),
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/roundup/cgi/TAL/DummyEngine.py:165: SyntaxWarning: assertion is always true, perhaps remove parentheses?
  assert (macroName.startswith("$") and macroName.endswith("$"),
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done

I'm not certain whether the installation has completed successfully.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: roundup 1.4.11-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-30.59-generic-pae 2.6.32.29+drm33.13
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-30-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 31 14:05:28 2011
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: roundup

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting this issue and making Ubuntu better!

I get the same errors when installing roundup on Ubuntu Natty.