Package: debhelper Version: 9.20130504 Severity: important I believe that this recent commit breaks it. With python*-dbg there is no separate /usr/lib/$python/distutils/__init__.py
$> ls -l /usr/bin/python2*-dbg /usr/lib/*/distutils/__init__.py lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 28 10:47 /usr/bin/python2-dbg -> python2.7-dbg* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5831299 Jan 26 10:33 /usr/bin/python2.6-dbg* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6748246 Apr 10 19:27 /usr/bin/python2.7-dbg* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 332 Sep 25 2009 /usr/lib/python2.4/distutils/__init__.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 635 Nov 28 2010 /usr/lib/python2.5/distutils/__init__.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 616 Jan 26 10:32 /usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/__init__.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 337 Apr 10 20:53 /usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/__init__.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 314 Feb 20 09:56 /usr/lib/python3.2/distutils/__init__.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 314 Apr 6 10:04 /usr/lib/python3.3/distutils/__init__.py Detected while trying to build recent package of cython -- _d.so were not built, and as a resuilt could not be installed. For your reference -- here is a build log: http://neuro.debian.net/_files/_buildlogs/cython/0.19+git51-g3078752/cython_0.19+git51-g3078752-1_amd64.build and here is the commit at fault I believe which was followed by f79ed4ddd81b299fe9b7aab55c0ef01b89989910 which was not of help to resolve it anyways commit 00250d8cd20a37be362850d3ed8a652b0768455f Author: Joey Hess <j...@kitenet.net> Date: Mon Aug 27 12:03:50 2012 -0400 python distutils buildsystem: When checking if a version of python is installed, don't trust the presense of the executable, as a python2.X-minimal package may provide it while not having distutils installed. Closes: #683557 python hate increasing.. diff --git a/Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem/python_distutils.pm b/Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem/python_distutils.pm index 4795b7c..81cff3c 100644 --- a/Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem/python_distutils.pm +++ b/Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem/python_distutils.pm @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ sub setup_py { } foreach my $python (@python_dbg, @python_requested) { - if (-x "/usr/bin/".$python) { + if (-f "/usr/lib/$python/distutils/__init__.py") { # To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass # --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for # those Python versions where the option is -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental'), (100, 'stable'), (100, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.22-8 ii dpkg 1.16.9 ii dpkg-dev 1.16.9 ii file 5.11-2 ii html2text 1.3.2a-15 ii man-db 2.6.2-1 ii perl 5.14.2-20 ii po-debconf 1.0.16+nmu2 debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: ii dh-make 0.61 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org