Package: python Version: 2.3.5-11 Severity: normal pyversions finds installed versions of Python with the glob /usr/bin/python[0-9].[0-9]. python2.4-minimal contains /usr/bin/python2.4, so if python2.4-minimal is installed but python2.4 is not, pyversions will consider Python 2.4 to be installed, causing python-central (and presumably also python-support) to compile modules for Python 2.4.
Since only a minimal Python 2.4 environment is actually available, this can fail (in particular, files with a -*- coding -*- will fail to compile, since the encodings package is missing). I believe this is the cause of bug#379709 in python-docutils. docutils contains files with -*- coding: utf-8 -*-, which python2.4-minimal is unable to compile. My suggestion would be to exclude -minimal Python versions from pyversions output and only show installed "full" versions, so site-packages modules will only work with "full" Python installations. If a site-packages module really does need to be available for use with python2.4-minimal, pyversions and python-central could gain an option --include-minimal or something for this purpose. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-powerpc Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages python2.3 depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.3-3 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdb4.3 4.3.29-5 Berkeley v4.3 Database Libraries [ ii libncurses5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libreadline5 5.1-7 GNU readline and history libraries ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8b-2 SSL shared libraries ii python-central 0.5.1 register and build utility for Pyt ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime Versions of packages python2.3 recommends: ii python2.3-cjkcodecs 1.1.1-1.2 Python Unicode Codecs Collection f ii python2.3-iconvcodec 1.1.2-2.2 Python universal Unicode codec, us -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
