python-repoze.who does not install into /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/repoze namespace and thus not available from pythonpath

[Cornelius Kölbel]

Using 14.04. LTS.

python-repoze.who can not be used togeather with python-repoze.lru.

Pyhton-repoze.lru installs to
     /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/repoze
while repoze.who installs to
    /usr/share/pyshared/repoze/who.

When doing an

import repoze.who.middleware

the who.middleware is not know, since the system tries to find it in /usr/lib/python2.7/distpackages, where it found repoze.lru!

Additionally the __init__.py are missing.

When I do the following everything works fine.

cp -r /usr/share/pyshared/repoze.who /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/repoze/
cp -r /usr/share/pyshared/repoze.who-1.0.18.egg-info/ /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/repoze/who/__init__.py
cp -r /usr/share/pyshared/repoze.who.plugins.* /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/
cp -r /usr/share/pyshared/repoze* /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/
touch /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/repoze/who/plugins/__init__.py

Can the package be fixed, please?

Thanks a lot and kind regards
Cornelius

[Dimitri John Ledkov 🌈 (xnox)]

Also see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=744367

[Dimitri John Ledkov 🌈 (xnox)]

This is fixed in utopic, and I don't quite have interested in backporting this fix to trusty.
The backport should be trivial to create and modify the bug description with a refactored test-case.
A begginer to intermediate contributor to Ubuntu development should be able to make the necessary steps to fix this.