Bug#591049: adonthell: does not start

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

Hi,

On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 01:09:27PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Jordan Metzmeier <titan8990 at gmail.com>, 2010-07-31, 22:54:
> >I grabbed this package and did some testing.
> >
> >If you rebuild the current adonthell-data package, things work as
> >expected.
> >
> >Solution too easy?
> 
> This fixes symptoms, not the root cause.
> 
> First of all, the package must not ship *.pyc in the binary package.
> It should bytecompile Python modules at runtime (using a helper like
> python-support).
> 
> However, there's another problem here: version of Python that
> adonthell was linked against and version of Python for which
> adonthell-data files are bytecompiled for must match. This is
> currently not enforced.

Since I needed to fix adonthell-data for the license bug in the
Avatar font file, I had already prepared an upload last night,
which provides the ad hoc fix of a recompile. Please file a
separate bug for cleaning up the Python policy handling.

Cheers,
        Moritz