Hello everyone, I'm preparing two bug reports, and in trying to sort one of them out, it seems that it may be linked to an incompatibility of a script with python2.7 (see bug #659831). So, in test that possibility, what I would like to do is install some other version of python (I see 2.5 and 2.6 in the repositories), in order to see whether the package works with another version.
My questions revolve around how time-consuming and worthwhile this
exercise will be:
1] Can I have multiple versions of python simultaneously?
2] Is there a way to specify that one package use a non-default version
of python? (I don't want to set an old version of python as default, if
that risks having other packages, depending on 2.7, break).
3] Is this a quick, straightforward install? Or is it going to be
something like an emacs install, with all kinds of time-consuming,
interminable local compilations and configurations?
Please respond to me directly, and on list. Thanks.
For background, the python bug is in package reportbug, WHEN BEING USED
IN TEXT MODE (See below for version information):
$ reportbug --ui=text libpam-mount
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 38, in <module>
from reportbug import utils
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/reportbug/utils.py", line 70,
in <module>
import debbugs
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/reportbug/debbugs.py", line 40,
in <module>
import debianbts
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/debianbts.py", line 33, in <module>
import SOAPpy
File "usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/SOAPpy__init__.py", line 5, in
<module>
from Client import *
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/SOAPpy/Client.py", line 59, in
<module>
from Parser import parseSOAPRPC
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/SOAPpy/Parser.py", line 10, in
<module>
from wstools.XMLname import fromXMLname
File "usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wstools__init__.py", line 6,
in <module>
import WSDLTools
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wstools/WSDLTools.py", line 15,
in <module>
from Utility import Collection, CollectionNS, DOM, ElementProxy,
basejoin
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wstools/Utility.py", line 30,
in <module>
from httplib import HTTPConnection, HTTPSConnection
ImportError: cannot import name HTTPSConnection
dpkg -l |grep reportbug
4715:ii python-reportbug
6.6.1 all Python modules for
interacting with bug tracking systems
4951:ii reportbug
6.6.1 all reports bugs in the
Debian distribution
dpkg -l |grep python2.7
3170:ii libpython2.7:amd64
2.7.8-11 amd64 Shared Python
runtime library (version 2.7)
3171:ii libpython2.7-dbg:amd64
2.7.8-11 amd64 Debug Build of the
Python Interpreter (version 2.7)
3172:ii libpython2.7-dev:amd64
2.7.8-11 amd64 Header files and a
static library for Python (v2.7)
3173:ii libpython2.7-minimal:amd64
2.7.8-11 amd64 Minimal subset of
the Python language (version 2.7)
3174:ii libpython2.7-stdlib:amd64
2.7.8-11 amd64 Interactive
high-level object-oriented language (standard library, version 2.7)
4795:ii python2.7
2.7.8-11 amd64 Interactive
high-level object-oriented language (version 2.7)
4796:ii python2.7-dbg
2.7.8-11 amd64 Debug Build of the
Python Interpreter (version 2.7)
4797:ii python2.7-dev
2.7.8-11 amd64 Header files and a
static library for Python (v2.7)
4798:ii python2.7-doc
2.7.8-11 all Documentation for
the high-level object-oriented language Python (v2.7)
4799:ii python2.7-examples
2.7.8-11 all Examples for the
Python language (v2.7)
4800:ii python2.7-minimal
2.7.8-11 amd64 Minimal subset of
the Python language (version 2.7)
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