Bug#401982: When spe is installed, python2.4-minimal would not configure

[Ronald Jones <ronald@ivec.org>]

Package: spe
Version: 0.8.2a+repack-1
Severity: important



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages spe depends on:
ii  kiki                         0.5.6-3     tool for python regular expression
ii  python                       2.4.4-1     An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central               0.5.12      register and build utility for Pyt
ii  python-wxglade               0.4.1-3     GUI designer written in Python wit
ii  python-wxgtk2.6              2.6.3.2.1.5 wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI t

Versions of packages spe recommends:
pn  python-doc                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  wx2.6-doc                     <none>     (no description available)

Python2.4 would not configure at all while spe was installed. I removed
the spe package and python2.4 installed/configured normally.

Here is the error report when trying to install python-central (the
same error message occurred when trying to install/configure any of the
python2.4 packages)

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~$ sudo apt-get -f install python-central
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
python-central is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
9 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up python2.4-minimal (2.4.4-1) ...
Linking and byte-compiling packages for runtime python2.4...
pycentral: pycentral rtinstall: package spe: already exists:
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_spe/doc
pycentral rtinstall: package spe: already exists:
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_spe/doc
dpkg: error processing python2.4-minimal (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python2.4:
python2.4 depends on python2.4-minimal (= 2.4.4-1); however:
Package python2.4-minimal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing python2.4 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python-minimal:
python-minimal depends on python2.4-minimal (>= 2.4.4); however:
Package python2.4-minimal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing python-minimal (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python:
python depends on python2.4 (>= 2.4.4); however:
Package python2.4 is not configured yet.
python depends on python-minimal (= 2.4.4-1); however:
Package python-minimal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing python (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
python-central:
python-central depends on python (>= 2.3.5-7); however:
Package python is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing python-central (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
python-support:
python-support depends on python (>= 2.3); however:
Package python is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing python-support
(--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

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and so on for every other package that required python2.4