python-xpcom uninstallable; superceded by xulrunner-1.9; please remove from archive

Just FYI, it appears that the xulrunner-1.9 package now includes the Python XPCOM bindings:

$ export PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.11/python
$ /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.11/run-mozilla.sh python
Python 2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:58:18)
[GCC 4.3.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import xpcom
>>>

Which would seem to render the python-xpcom package obsolete. It'd be helpful if the package description included a note about this...

Just to confirm this here, i.e.

sudo apt-get install python-xpcom

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
  python-xpcom: Depends: python (< 2.6) but 2.6.2-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

dpkg-query -l python
ii python 2.6.2-0ubuntu1 An interactive high-level object-oriented language (default version)
dpkg-query -l python2.5
ii python2.5 2.5.4-1ubuntu4 An interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 2.5)

This directory does contain the bindings but they're not on the standard python path /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.13/python

python-xpcom is built from the xulrunner 1.8 source, which is gradully being pulled from the archive (see bug 352968). The only rdepends on python-xpcom is sugar-web-activity (see bug 459532).

installing xulrunner-1.9.1 doesnt get python-xpcom on it, (this is on lucid setup)
from python i get

 Python 2.6.4+ (r264:75706, Jan 22 2010, 12:15:17)
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import xpcom
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named xpcom
>>>

so xurlrunner doesnt have the python bindings in it.

Please see Bug #480407. PyXPCOM was removed from the main tree so it
needs to be packaged separately.

On 01/25/2010 02:41 PM, dirakx wrote:
> installing xulrunner-1.9.1 doesnt get python-xpcom on it, (this is on lucid setup)
> from python i get
>
> Python 2.6.4+ (r264:75706, Jan 22 2010, 12:15:17)
> [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>
>>>> import xpcom
>>>>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in<module>
> ImportError: No module named xpcom
>
>>>>
> so xurlrunner doesnt have the python bindings in it.
>
>

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.