[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#663490: python-libtiff: Permission denied: '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libtiff/tiff_h_4_0_1.py'

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Package: python-libtiff
Severity: important


python-libtiff is currently unusable, it fails with:

>>> import libtiff
Generating '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libtiff/tiff_h_4_0_1.py'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libtiff/__init__.py", line 20, in <module>
    from .libtiff_ctypes import libtiff, TIFF
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libtiff/libtiff_ctypes.py", line 87, in <module>
    f = open(fn, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libtiff/tiff_h_4_0_1.py'
>>> 


-AA-A System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash