[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#567744: base: .

[Ben Finney]

Package: base
Severity: normal


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From: Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
Subject: python2.6-minimal: fails with error during dpkg unpack
Bcc: Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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Package: python2.6-minimal
Version: 2.6.4-4
Severity: important

I have successfully installed ‘python2.6-minimal’ (as a dependency of
‘python2.6’) on several machines, so this is not severity ‘serious’.
But on a few i386 machines, the following error occurs:

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Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 311012 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking python2.6-minimal (from .../python2.6-minimal_2.6.4-4_i386.deb) ...
new installation of python2.6-minimal; /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages is a directory
which is expected a symlink to /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages.
please find the package shipping files in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages and
file a bug report to ship these in /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages instead
aborting installation of python2.6-minimal
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.6-minimal_2.6.4-4_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
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-- 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/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages python2.6-minimal depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-2         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8             0.9.8k-8         SSL shared libraries
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages python2.6-minimal recommends:
pn  python2.6                     <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages python2.6-minimal suggests:
ii  binfmt-support                1.2.15     Support for extra binary formats

-- 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/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash