Opened at 2010-06-22T08:29:01Z

Last modified at 2011-01-02T14:46:31Z

#38 new defect

Debian Package has no field Python-Version

Reported by: arthur Owned by: arthur
Priority: major Milestone:
Version: Keywords: packaging
Cc: Launchpad Bug:

Description (last modified by zooko) 

# dpkg -i "./buildbot_pycryptopp/Arthur debian-lenny-c7-i386/build/deb_dist/python-pycryptopp_0.5.19-r704-1_i386.deb"
(Reading database ... 94425 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace python-pycryptopp 0.5.15-1 (using .../python-pycryptopp_0.5.19-r704-1_i386.deb) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1891, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1885, in main
    rv = action.run(global_options)
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1404, in run
    pkg.read_version_info()
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 707, in read_version_info
    raise PyCentralError, "package has no field Python-Version"
__main__.PyCentralError: package has no field Python-Version
dpkg: error processing ./buildbot_pycryptopp/Arthur debian-lenny-c7-i386/build/deb_dist/python-pycryptopp_0.5.19-r704-1_i386.deb (--install):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ./buildbot_pycryptopp/Arthur debian-lenny-c7-i386/build/deb_dist/python-pycryptopp_0.5.19-r704-1_i386.deb

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed at 2010-06-22T15:37:00Z by zooko

That .deb was built automatically. You can see the commands used and the output produced here:

​http://tahoe-lafs.org/buildbot-pycryptopp/builders/Arthur%20debian-lenny-c7-i386/builds/71

Perhaps this means there is a bug in stdeb?

comment:2 Changed at 2010-09-04T20:44:55Z by zooko

  • Owner set to arthur

Hm, could this have been a bug in Debian?

​https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-central/+bug/195551

comment:3 Changed at 2011-01-02T14:46:31Z by zooko

  • Description modified (diff)

Arthur: could you supply a patch that fixes this issue?

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