After some discussion with Steve Langasek on IRC, he suggested that we're really too close to release to be considering non-trivial changes like this where we don't fully understand the implications, so I'm going to start working on this as an SRU.
Here's a new patch targetted at a post-release SRU. It also fixes prevents this from being a problem in the future by using ${python:Depends} instead of just depending on python.
After some discussion with Steve Langasek on IRC, he suggested that we're really too close to release to be considering non-trivial changes like this where we don't fully understand the implications, so I'm going to start working on this as an SRU.
Here's a new patch targetted at a post-release SRU. It also fixes prevents this from being a problem in the future by using ${python:Depends} instead of just depending on python.
Build should be running in my PPA any minute now.