Package: python2.6 Version: 2.6.5+20100529-1 Severity: grave Tags: sid Justification: renders package unusable
While trying to upgrade python2.6 to version 2.6.5+20100529-1 there is an error during the execution of the post-install script: TypeError: ('compile() expected string without null bytes',)dpkg: error processing python2.6 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 In order to find out where it failed, I modified the postinst script as follows: #! /bin/sh -e files=$(dpkg -L python2.6 | sed -n '/^\/usr\/lib\/python2.6\/.*\.py$/p') for file in $files do echo "Processing '$file'" python2.6 /usr/lib/python2.6/py_compile.py $file done Running that script indicated it failed at the folling file: Processing '/usr/lib/python2.6/io.py' Sorry: TypeError: ('compile() expected string without null bytes',) This error prevent the installation of this package (and therefor libpython2.6), so I've set the severity to grave. Regards, Diederik -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages python2.6 depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.11.1-1 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdb4.8 4.8.30-1 Berkeley v4.8 Database Libraries [ ii libncursesw5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libreadline6 6.1-3 GNU readline and history libraries ii libsqlite3-0 3.6.23.1-4 SQLite 3 shared library ii mime-support 3.48-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap ii python2.6-minimal 2.6.5+20100529-1 A minimal subset of the Python lan python2.6 recommends no packages. Versions of packages python2.6 suggests: ii binutils 2.20.1-10 The GNU assembler, linker and bina pn python2.6-doc <none> (no description available) pn python2.6-profiler <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org