Bug#345622: Workaround

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 15:19 +0200, Martin Schuster wrote: 
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 09:26:23AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 21:33 +0200, Martin Schuster wrote:
> > > I don't know anything about python, so maybe this will do awful
> > > things to your system, but I was able to install xserver-xorg
> > > by doing
> > > 
> > > # cd /usr/bin
> > > # ln -sf python2.3 python
> > 
> > What does
> > 
> > apt-cache policy $(dpkg -S /usr/bin/python | cut -d: -f1)
> > 
> > say?
> > 
> python:
>   Installed: 2.3.5-3
>   Candidate: 2.3.5-5
>   Version table:
>      2.3.5-5 0
>         500 http://localhost sid/main Packages
>  *** 2.3.5-3 0
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> furthermore:
> 
> python2.3:
>   Installed: 2.3.4+2.3.5c1-2
>   Candidate: 2.3.5-9.1
>   Version table:
>      2.3.5-9.1 0
>         500 http://localhost sid/main Packages
>  *** 2.3.4+2.3.5c1-2 0
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> python2.4:
>   Installed: 2.4.2-2
>   Candidate: 2.4.3-1
>   Version table:
>      2.4.3-1 0
>         500 http://localhost sid/main Packages
>  *** 2.4.2-2 0
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Does it work after upgrading these (and related) packages to sid?


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