I've got the same messages but it seems the source of the problem lying in broken local installation. One of my installations (the problematic one) has /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages with many dangling symbolic links.
./Reportlab-2.1.egg-info: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/Reportlab-2.1.egg-info' ./reportlab/license.txt: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/license.txt' ./reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/pythonpoint.dtd: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/pythonpoint.dtd' ./reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/pythonpoint.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/pythonpoint.py' ./reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/styles/horrible.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/styles/horrible.py' ./reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/styles/modern.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/styles/modern.py' ./reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/styles/htu.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/styles/htu.py' ./reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/styles/standard.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/styles/standard.py' ./reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/styles/projection.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/styles/projection.py' ./reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/styles/__init__.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/styles/__init__.py' ./reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/customshapes.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/customshapes.py' ./reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/README: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/README' ./reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/__init__.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/__init__.py' ./reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/stdparser.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/pythonpoint/stdparser.py' ./reportlab/tools/docco/yaml.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/docco/yaml.py' ./reportlab/tools/docco/docpy.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/docco/docpy.py' ./reportlab/tools/docco/yaml2pdf.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/docco/yaml2pdf.py' ./reportlab/tools/docco/examples.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/docco/examples.py' ./reportlab/tools/docco/t_parse.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/docco/t_parse.py' ./reportlab/tools/docco/rltemplate.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/docco/rltemplate.py' ./reportlab/tools/docco/graphdocpy.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/docco/graphdocpy.py' ./reportlab/tools/docco/stylesheet.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/docco/stylesheet.py' ./reportlab/tools/docco/rl_doc_utils.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/docco/rl_doc_utils.py' ./reportlab/tools/docco/README: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/docco/README' ./reportlab/tools/docco/__init__.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/docco/__init__.py' ./reportlab/tools/docco/codegrab.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/docco/codegrab.py' ./reportlab/tools/py2pdf/vertpython.jpg: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/py2pdf/vertpython.jpg' ./reportlab/tools/py2pdf/py2pdf.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/py2pdf/py2pdf.py' ./reportlab/tools/py2pdf/demo.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/py2pdf/demo.py' ./reportlab/tools/py2pdf/idle_print.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/py2pdf/idle_print.py' ./reportlab/tools/py2pdf/README: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/py2pdf/README' ./reportlab/tools/py2pdf/__init__.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/py2pdf/__init__.py' ./reportlab/tools/py2pdf/demo-config.txt: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/py2pdf/demo-config.txt' ./reportlab/tools/README: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/README' ./reportlab/tools/__init__.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/tools/__init__.py' ./reportlab/extensions/README: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/extensions/README' ./reportlab/extensions/__init__.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/extensions/__init__.py' ./reportlab/fonts/00readme.txt: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/fonts/00readme.txt' ./reportlab/fonts/bitstream-vera-license.txt: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/fonts/bitstream-vera-license.txt' ./reportlab/lib/tocindex.py: broken symbolic link to `/usr/share/pyshared/reportlab/lib/tocindex.py' I have no idea what it had came from. Looks bad, needs to be repaired. Is there other way than force purge all python's packages and installing them again? Regards, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org