I've managed to get python-apt (and thus apt-listchanges) working again on my testing system. What a PITA... Anyway, I first just tried to recompile python-apt-0.5.4.3. Compile went fine, but the first attempt to execute apt-listchanges failed with a dynamic linking error. C++ API change. First, I thought there was supposed to be a transition plan that would guard against such things happening. Is some package (apt?) not following it? So, I finally managed to get it to compile with gcc 2.95, and it works. But doing that was (at least for me, not being familiar with python) quite difficult. So here's my question about python packages (and the reason for cc'ing debian-python): Is there a better way to specify which compiler to use than to edit /usr/lib/python2.2/config/Makefile ? Anyway, if you want apt-listchanges back, all you have to do is change /usr/lib/python2.2/config/Makefile (temporarily) to say gcc-2.95 instead of gcc, then recompile python-apt. PS: I am not subscribed to debian-python; please CC me on replies.
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