Bug#568010: python-tau: cannot co-install with python2.6-minimal

[Jakub Wilk]

Package: python-tau
Version: 2.16.4-1.2+b1
Severity: serious
User: debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: python2.6 dist-packages

Hello,



# apt-get install python2.6-minimal
Reading package lists... Done

Suggested packages:
  binfmt-support
Recommended packages:
  python2.6
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  python2.6-minimal
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1359kB of archives.
After this operation, 4788kB of additional disk space will be used.
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
Selecting previously deselected package python2.6-minimal.
(Reading database ... 12398 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking python2.6-minimal (from .../python2.6-minimal_2.6.4-5_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_2.6.4-5_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.6-minimal_2.6.4-5_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

--
Jakub Wilk

Installation of python2.6-minial fails if python-tau is installed, because it's shipping Python 2.6 modules in the wrong directory: Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done

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