SRU
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Impact:
The package is completely unusable on Lucid, as the default python version is 2.6, and this package only ships libaries in the 2.5 site-packages.
Solution:
The root cause is that dh_pysupport is never called. This patch calls it during the build, which results in a Python version-independant package.
Reproduction Instructions:
1. Install firmware-addon-dell and firmware-tools.
2. Run inventory_firmware
3. Note error: Config Error: Plugin "firmware_addon_dell.dellbios" cannot be loaded: No module named firmware_addon_dell.dellbios
Regression potential:
None I can see.
Original Report:
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Binary package hint: firmware-addon-dell
The package contains a Python module with is, unfortunately, hardcoded -- not for any particular reason -- to use Python 2.5
kalki:[~]% dpkg -L firmware-addon-dell
/.
/etc
/etc/yum
/etc/yum/pluginconf.d
/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/dellsysidplugin.conf
/etc/firmware
/etc/firmware/firmware.d
/etc/firmware/firmware.d/firmware-addon-dell.conf
[...]
/usr/lib/python2.5
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/firmware_addon_dell
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/firmware_addon_dell/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/firmware_addon_dell/biosHdr.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/firmware_addon_dell/dellbios.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/firmware_addon_dell/extract_bios.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/firmware_addon_dell/extract_bios_blacklist.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/firmware_addon_dell/extract_common.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/firmware_addon_dell/HelperXml.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/firmware_addon_dell/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/firmware_addon_dell/biosHdr.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/firmware_addon_dell/dellbios.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/firmware_addon_dell/extract_bios.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/firmware_addon_dell/extract_bios_blacklist.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/firmware_addon_dell/extract_common.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/firmware_addon_dell/HelperXml.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/firmware_addon_dell/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/firmware_addon_dell/biosHdr.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/firmware_addon_dell/dellbios.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/firmware_addon_dell/extract_bios.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/firmware_addon_dell/extract_bios_blacklist.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/firmware_addon_dell/extract_common.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/firmware_addon_dell/HelperXml.pyo
[...]
It should be using either pycentral or pyshared (or similiar) so that it can adapt to the system python version (which on Ubuntu 10.04 is Python 2.6).
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firmware-addon-dell 2.1.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jul 7 00:57:16 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_AU.utf8
SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: firmware-addon-dell
This bug was fixed in the package firmware-addon-dell - 2.2.9-0ubuntu1
---------------
firmware-addon-dell (2.2.9-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low
[ Bhavani Shankar ]
* New upstream release LP: #414247
* debian/control:
- Bump up Standards-Version to 3.9.0
+ remove linda override file
- Remove Homepage link from package description
- Bump up debhelper dependency to >= 5.0.38 as per policy
- Add ${misc:Depends} macro to Depends field
* debian/rules:
- No longer install the linda override file we removed.
- Remove get-orig-source, we are using releases again.
* Remove debian/install file and doc/debian.in directory as it
is used for building firmware packages, not installing them.
[ Artur Rona ]
* Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format.
[ Stefano Rivera ]
* Remove debian/pycompat, unnecessary.
* debian/rules:
- Removed remaining get-orig-source support code.
- Switched from autotools.mk to python-autotools.mk (LP: #602496)
* debian/control:
- Moved firmware-tools dependency from Python-Depends to Depends
(LP: #200956)
- Bumped cdbs build dependency to 0.4.72 for python-autotools.mk
* Added README.Debian
-- Bhavani Shankar <email address hidden> Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:54:19 +0530