Installing certain Python Packages fails

[Florian Diesch]

"David A. Cobb" <superbiskit at cox.net> wrote:

> Running Breezy, kernel 2.6.12.
> Every attempt to install certain Python packages ends badly with the
> following DPKG output:
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> /usr type xfs (rw)
> Setting up python2.4-sqlobject (0.6-1ubuntu2) ...
> Compiling
> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/py/test/testing/data/syntax_error.py ...
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/py/test/testing/data/syntax_error.py",
> line 3
>     this is really not python
>                             ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

After installing new python packages the package manager tries to
compile all python files in /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages (see
/var/lib/dpkg/info/python2.4-sqlobject.postinst and
/usr/lib/python2.4/compileall.py).

It seems some package is having some test file there.
 dpkg -S /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/py/test/testing/data/syntax_error.py
will tell you which package it is.

You have the following options (none of which is nice):
 * remove the bad package
 * remove or fix syntax_error.py
 * modify /usr/lib/python2.4/compileall.py so it doesn't try to compile 
   syntax-error.py

I any case please file a bug report against the bad package.

Maybe compileall.py should have a config file to exclude dirs from
automatic compilation.



   Florian
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