Re: python-defaults update in Squeeze

[Stuart Prescott <stuart@nanonanonano.net>]

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Hi!

Julien Cristau wrote:

> Care to explain why this is needed?  And what the other changes are
> about?  There's no bug number, and the changelog doesn't really tell
> much.

By way of summary of the original patch and a plan for what will happen to 
it:

The changes to dh_python2 will be necessary for those wishing to backport 
wheezy packages to squeeze; they're in a "nice to have but not necessary for 
stable users" category and since they apply only to backporters will go via 
squeeze-backports at an appropriate juncture.

The important change to pycompile for squeeze is the last hunk. It is 
necessary because Debian's py_compile carries a small patch to accept the 
list of files to compile over stdin. It's backported from py3.2 
(http://bugs.python.org/issue8233). This change makes a local py_compile 
incompatible, so if an admin has a source install of python as 
/usr/local/bin/pythonX.Y then breakage ensues, as seen in the following 
snippet routinely seen on #debian with people upgrading from lenny to 
squeeze.

Paramétrage de python2.6-minimal (2.6.6-8+b1) ...
Linking and byte-compiling packages for runtime python2.6...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/runpy.py", line 122, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/runpy.py", line 34, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/py_compile.py", line 168, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/py_compile.py", line 160, in main
    compile(filename, doraise=True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/py_compile.py", line 115, in compile
    f = open(file, 'U')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '-'
dpkg : erreur de traitement de python2.6-minimal (--configure) :

Piotr Ożarowski will upload the one-line fix for this to squeeze-proposed-
updates as agreed on #debian-release.


Thanks everyone!

Stuart

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