Bug#435757: python-apt: Error using apt_pkg: undefined symbol: pkgcpu

[Kumar Appaiah <akumar@ee.iitm.ac.in>]

Package: python-apt
Version: 0.7.3
Severity: important


I get an "undefined symbol" error as follows:

<shell>
[kumar@debian ~] python
Python 2.4.4 (#2, Apr 26 2007, 00:02:45) 
[GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import apt_pkg
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt_pkg.so: undefined symbol: pkgCPU
</shell>

Since this effectively renders the package unusable, I set the
severity to important.

Thanks.

Kumar

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages python-apt depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.6 0.7.6            Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  apt-utils [libapt-inst- 0.7.6            APT utility programs
ii  libc6                   2.6-4            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.2-20070609-1 GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6              4.2-20070609-1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  lsb-release             3.1-24           Linux Standard Base version report
ii  python                  2.4.4-6          An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central          0.5.14           register and build utility for Pyt

python-apt recommends no packages.

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