Bug#410695: zope2.7 causqe upgrade failure

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

Package: upgrade-reports
Severity: serious

The piuparts run below:

/usr/sbin/piuparts -a -d sarge -d etch gnupg xawtv k3d-dev libcnumx0-dev mozilla-opensc xmms-coverviewer makeself koffice-i18n-nn kview libmcardplugin gij-3.4 gimp-dimage-color libast2-dev libaal-dev caudium-dev libcvsservice0 tex-guy linuxdoc-tools-latex snort-common multipath-tools isic libpam-pwdfile libotr1-dev libglib2-ruby haskelldb-bin cyrus21-imapd bsign scalapack-lam-test pyching freeswan dict-freedict-spa-eng xfaces libtie-cache-perl zope2.7-mimetypesregistry libdmsocket-0.32.5-0-dev attal-themes-medieval kde-i18n-srlatin dircproxy pica glimmer kappfinder kde-i18n-eu 9menu selflinux-pdf libgtksourceview-doc

fails with:

  dpkg: python2.3: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you
request:
   python2.3-xml depends on python2.3.
   python depends on python2.3 (>= 2.3.4-18).
   zope2.7 depends on python2.3 (>= 2.3.2).
  (Reading database ... 47589 files and directories currently
installed.)
  Removing python2.3 ...
  (Reading database ... 47080 files and directories currently
installed.)
  Preparing to replace python 2.3.5-2 (using .../python_2.4.4-2_all.deb)
...
  Unpacking replacement python ...
  Selecting previously deselected package python-minimal.
  Unpacking python-minimal (from .../python-minimal_2.4.4-2_all.deb) ...
  (Reading database ... 47090 files and directories currently
installed.)
  Removing zope2.7-mimetypesregistry ...
  Removing zope2.7 ...
  awk: warning: escape sequence `\.' treated as plain `.'
  /var/lib/dpkg/info/zope2.7.prerm: line 60: python2.3: command not
found
  dpkg: error processing zope2.7 (--remove):
   subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127
  dpkg: python2.3-xml: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you
request:
   zope2.7 depends on python2.3-xml; however:
    Package python2.3-xml is to be removed.
  Removing python2.3-xml ...
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   zope2.7

The package zope2.7 was removed from Etch, but we still need to provide
an upgrade path.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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