A. L. Meyers <nospam.look@replyto.because.this.is.invalid> [2002-09-30 08:03:12 +0200]: > Thanks for the detailed explanation. What happened (see my post here) I had to go look for it. http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/2002/debian-testing-200209/msg00061.html > is than the tmda spam filter testing package broke tmda, thus breaking > the email setup, which is, at least in my setup, a vital system > component. Simply cannot afford (timewise) such a breakdown. Therefore > decision: back to stable. Two thoughts. 1. Looks like a basic python problem. I don't know Python, it's that whitespace for control flow thing, let's not talk about that here. It looks like a basic module path breakage that a python person could fix. 2. Since this is limited to Python it is probably a configuration file somewhere. Which means you might try removing both python and tmda with --purge to get rid of configuration files and then reinstalling new versions which should work together. Number 2 above is complicated because python will take with it 60-75 other packages that depend upon it. But if it were me that is probably what I would do. Someone will hopefully mention how to do that without taking the dependencies with it. Without knowing how to do that I would do it in steps. 1. Get a list of dependencies by running apt-get remove python and saving them off. Seperate the list into two sections, python and non-python. 2. apt-get remove non-python-list Takes out dependencies so that the next step works. But leaves any configuration files behind. 3. apt-get --purge remove python-list Takes out python and also removes configuration files, which seem broken in this case. 4. apt-get install python-list non-python-list Put everything back. Alternately using --get-selections and --set-selections as has been mentioned a number of times also probably works in place of 4. I have probably missed something in the above and hopefully others will correct the blunder. But it would seem that would get you back into operating mode again. Bob
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