Hi. I was also affected by this bug and I managed to reproduce it.
> Why do you think that the file going missing is a python-minimal bug?
The missing file seems to be generated by the postinst script which
contains:
pycompile -p python-backports.ssl-match-hostname
But, there's also a .prerm script for this package that runs this:
pyclean -p python-backports-shutil-get-terminal-size
If you install (reinstall) those packages:
python-backports.ssl-match-hostname
python-backports-shutil-get-terminal-size
And remove either of them, you'll end up with
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/backports/__init__.py{c}
missing.
Maybe those scripts should check if those files belong to another
packages before running pyclean
There are other python-backports-* packages that probably suffer from
the same problem.
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Jason Pleau
