Bug#557426: python-xml is unhappy even though I've kept python2.5 after python itself upgraded to 2.6

[Edward Welbourne]

Package: python-xml
Version: 0.8.4-10.1
Severity: normal


I've asked aptitude to update, only to find it wants to upgrade python
to 2.6 (yay !) and two packages (python-ll-core and python-xml)
conflict with that because they depend on python < 2.6 (i.e. the
primary python package must be at a version less than 2.6) rather than
depending on availability of a version of python earlier than 2.6.  I
have python2.5 installed anyway - and it's not going away just because
2.6 is becoming the default - so I can still use these packages, just
not in the default python version.

Presumably it should suffice to change the requirement to
python < 2.6 | python2.5 | python2.4 | ...
and these packages will be happy with the transition.

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages python-xml depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.10.2-9    Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  python                       2.5.4-9     An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central               0.6.14+nmu2 register and build utility for Pyt

python-xml recommends no packages.

Versions of packages python-xml suggests:
pn  python-xml-dbg                <none>     (no description available)
ii  python-xml-doc                0.8.4-10.1 XML tools for Python (documentatio

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