[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#603861: Bug#603861: fetchmailconf: looks in the wrong place for fetchmailconf.py

[Nico Golde]

severity 603861 grave
thanks

Hi,
* Justin B Rye <jbr at edlug.org.uk> [2010-11-17 23:49]:
> Package: fetchmailconf
> Version: 6.3.18-1
> Severity: normal
> 
>  jbr at xan:~$ sudo aptitude install fetchmailconf
>  [...]
>  jbr at xan:~$ fetchmailconf
>  /usr/bin/python: can't open file '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/fetchmailconf.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> 
> But it's probably too late to keep this bug out of Squeeze, because
> of course there's a simple workaround:
> 
>  jbr at xan:/$ ls -l /usr/lib/py*/*-*/f*.py
>  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Nov 17 22:02 /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/fetchmailconf.py -> /usr/share/pyshared/fetchmailconf.py
>  jbr at xan:/$ python /usr/share/pyshared/fetchmailconf.py
>  [works]

Thanks for the report, confirmed. This is due to the change from python2.4/2.5 
to python2.5, it's not site-packages but dist-packages anymore. 

Since this makes fetchmailconf in squeeze unusable by default I raise the 
severity to grave.

Cheers
Nico
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