Package: python-dingus Version: 0.1-1 Severity: serious Tags: patch Justification: Policy 3.5
The code in ‘python-dingus’ uses features not available before Python
2.5. So when installing on a Debian Squeeze system, the following
error occurs:
=====
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Compiling /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.4/dingus.py ...
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.4/dingus.py", line 103
name = 'dingus_%i' % id(self) if name is None else name
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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Debian Policy 2.5 says:
Every package must specify the dependency information about other
packages that are required for the first to work correctly.
The package needs to be changed so that its declared dependencies
match its actual dependencies.
This can be done by patching the source to use only code that work in
Python >= 2.4 (the earliest in Squeeze); or by having the package
declare a dependency on Python >= 2.5.
The following patch will cause ‘python-support’ to add the latter
dependency. You may want to get the package reviewed by the
‘debian-python’ team to find other packaging issues.
=== added file 'debian/pyversions'
--- debian/pyversions 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
+++ debian/pyversions 2009-11-05 22:29:33 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+2.5-
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (900, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-powerpc64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_AU.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages python-dingus depends on:
ii python 2.5.4-2 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-support 1.0.4 automated rebuilding support for P
python-dingus recommends no packages.
python-dingus suggests no packages.
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