Re: dh_python2 missing

[Arto Jantunen <viiru@debian.org>]

Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au> writes:

> Just noticed when building my package that I got this warning:
>
> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: Depends field of package python-karaage: unknown
> substitution variable ${python:Depends}
>
> Trying to chase this down, I noticed that I didn't have dh_python2
> installed:
>
> $ /usr/bin/dh_python2
> zsh: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/dh_python2
>
> However:
>
> $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/dh_python2
> python: /usr/bin/dh_python2
>
> Am guessing that something might have broken when I upgraded wheezy to
> Jessie, I will check if my other systems have the same problem.
>
> I reinstalled the python package, and as expected in came good.
>
> Not entirely sure this is a bug that needs to be reported, however letting
> other people know just in case this isn't something unique to be setup on
> this particular computer.

I've seen that as well. I assumed that it was caused by going from
wheezy + backports to jessie, the upgrade of dh-python there was broken
for some time.

-- 
Arto Jantunen