diff -u vtk-5.0.4/debian/rules vtk-5.0.4/debian/rules
--- vtk-5.0.4/debian/rules
+++ vtk-5.0.4/debian/rules
@@ -235,9 +235,9 @@
 	# 1. Install libvtk*Python.so into /usr/lib/
 	mv debian/tmp/usr/lib/*Python*.so* debian/python-vtk/usr/lib/
 	# 2. Install all the stuff in Wrapping/Python into
-	#    /usr/lib/$(PYVERS)/site-packages/vtk_python
+	#    /usr/lib/$(PYVERS)/dist-packages/vtk_python
 	mv debian/tmp/usr/lib/$(PYVERS) $(CURDIR)/debian/python-vtk/usr/lib/
-	find $(CURDIR)/debian/python-vtk/usr/lib/$(PYVERS)/site-packages -name \*.pyc -exec rm \{\} \;
+	find $(CURDIR)/debian/python-vtk/usr/lib/$(PYVERS)/dist-packages -name \*.pyc -exec rm \{\} \;
 
 	mv debian/tmp/usr/lib/*.5.0* debian/libvtk5/usr/lib/
 	mv debian/tmp/usr/lib/vtk-5.0/CMake/*.so debian/libvtk5/usr/lib/vtk-5.0/CMake/
diff -u vtk-5.0.4/debian/python-vtk.postinst vtk-5.0.4/debian/python-vtk.postinst
--- vtk-5.0.4/debian/python-vtk.postinst
+++ vtk-5.0.4/debian/python-vtk.postinst
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 PYVERS=`pyversions -d`
 PACKAGE=`basename $0 .postinst`
-DIRLIST="/usr/lib/$PYVERS/site-packages/vtk"
+DIRLIST="/usr/lib/$PYVERS/dist-packages/vtk"
 
 case "$1" in
     configure|abort-upgrade|abort-remove|abort-deconfigure)
diff -u vtk-5.0.4/debian/control vtk-5.0.4/debian/control
--- vtk-5.0.4/debian/control
+++ vtk-5.0.4/debian/control
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 Source: vtk
 Section: graphics
 Priority: optional
-Maintainer: A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>
+Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com>
+XSBC-Original-Maintainer: A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 4.0.0), xlibmesa-gl-dev | libgl-dev, libglu1-mesa-dev | libglu-dev, libx11-dev, libxt-dev, xvfb, x11proto-core-dev, tcl8.4-dev, tk8.4-dev, python-dev, cmake (>> 2.0.4), libexpat1-dev, libjpeg62-dev, libpng12-0-dev, libtiff4-dev | libtiff-dev, zlib1g-dev, libfreetype6-dev, ftgl-dev, libqt3-mt-dev, libqt4-dev, python-support (>= 0.4)
 Build-Depends-Indep: libdigest-md5-perl, doxygen, graphviz
 XS-Python-Version: current
diff -u vtk-5.0.4/debian/changelog vtk-5.0.4/debian/changelog
--- vtk-5.0.4/debian/changelog
+++ vtk-5.0.4/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+vtk (5.0.4-1.1ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low
+
+  * Rebuild for the Python 2.6 transition.
+    - Make Wrapping/Python/vtkPythonAppInit.cxx also search in dist-packages
+      for the library.
+    - The postinst should now compile what is in dist-packages, not site-packages.
+    - debian/rules should also remove .pyc files from dist-packages.
+
+ -- James Westby <james.westby@ubuntu.com>  Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:15:43 +0000
+
 vtk (5.0.4-1.1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Non-maintainer upload.
only in patch2:
unchanged:
--- vtk-5.0.4.orig/Wrapping/Python/vtkPythonAppInit.cxx
+++ vtk-5.0.4/Wrapping/Python/vtkPythonAppInit.cxx
@@ -243,6 +243,7 @@
     // packages in sys.path himself/herself.
     const char* inst_dirs[] = {
       "/lib/python" VTK_PYTHON_VERSION "/site-packages/vtk", // UNIX --prefix
+      "/lib/python" VTK_PYTHON_VERSION "/dist-packages/vtk", // Debian package prefix
       "/lib/python/vtk", // UNIX --home
       "/Lib/site-packages/vtk", "/Lib/vtk", // Windows
       "/site-packages/vtk", "/vtk", // Windows