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[ Aaron M. Ucko ]
> Package: python-boto
> Version: 0.9a-1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 10.1
> 
> python-boto installs its unit tests, complete with an __init__.py, to
> /usr/share/python-support/python-boto/tests and (implicitly) asks
> python-support to compile them; not only does this waste (a small
> amount) of resources, it leads to effective conflicts with similarly
> broken packages such as python-pylons at present:
> 
> Setting up python-boto (0.9a-1) ...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/update-python-modules", line 294, in ?
>     process(basedir,install_modules(py_installed))
>   File "/usr/sbin/update-python-modules", line 162, in process
>     func(basedir, dir, file)
>   File "/usr/sbin/update-python-modules", line 129, in
>   install_modules_func
>     raise "Trying to overwrite %s which is already provided by
>     %s"%(os.path.join(dir,file),otherdir)
> Trying to overwrite tests/__init__.py which is already provided by 
> /usr/share/python-support/python-pylons
> 
> Could you please either leave the tests off altogether or ship them as
> documentation rather than passing them off as library modules?

Certainly. I'll followup with an upload shortly. Thanks for the report.

-- 
Eric Evans
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