Bug#401484: python-apt: Upgrading python2.4 fails complaining about apt/__init__.py

[Jakob Bohm <jbj@image.dk>]

Package: python-apt
Version: 0.6.19
Severity: normal

When I install an updated version of the python packages (as part of normal
system updating with aptitude), the dpkg run fails complaining about
"already exists: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/__init__.py ->
/usr/share/pycentral/...../__init__.py" .

Manually deleting all files in /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/ allows
dpkg to proceed (i.e. dpkg --configure --pending no longer fails).

I suspect the offending files may be leftovers from older package versions.

I am actually unsure if this is a bug in apt-listchanges, python-apt,
python-central or a core python2.4 package, but python-apt seems the most
likely candidate since it apparently owns that file.

I have experienced this specific failure in multiple etch chroots on this
computer, some of which use the x86_64 architecture, while others run i386
like the one used to file this report (all share the same kernel and
hardware).

I hope someone can track down and fix this bug before it gets unleashed unto
the world as part of an etch release.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (450, 'unstable'), (400, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /basnxt32/bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17jbj3.4-18
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages python-apt depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3. 0.6.46.2    Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  apt-utils [libapt-inst-libc6 0.6.46.2    APT utility programs
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                      1:4.1.1-19  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                   4.1.1-19    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  python                       2.4.4-1     An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central               0.5.12      register and build utility for Pyt

python-apt recommends no packages.

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