Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

[A. Costa]

Package: morituri
Version: 0.1.2-1
Followup-For: Bug #630787


For the record, I've had this same install bug for about a month, even
when installing with 'aptitude':

	% aptitude install morituri ; echo $?
	The following NEW packages will be installed:
	  morituri 
	0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 972 not upgraded.
	Need to get 0 B/101 kB of archives. After unpacking 578 kB will be used.
	Selecting previously deselected package morituri.
	(Reading database ... 285392 files and directories currently installed.)
	Unpacking morituri (from .../morituri_0.1.2-1_all.deb) ...
	Processing triggers for man-db ...
	Setting up morituri (0.1.2-1) ...
	/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/morituri/common/checksum.py:245: FutureWarning: hex/oct constants > 	sys.maxint will return positive values in Python 2.4 and up
	  checksum &= 0xFFFFFFFF
	/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/morituri/common/checksum.py:259: FutureWarning: hex/oct constants > 	sys.maxint will return positive values in Python 2.4 and up
	  checksum &= 0xFFFFFFFF
	/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/morituri/image/table.py:506: FutureWarning: hex/oct constants > 	sys.maxint will return positive values in Python 2.4 and up
	  discId1 &= 0xffffffff
	/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/morituri/image/table.py:507: FutureWarning: hex/oct constants > 	sys.maxint will return positive values in Python 2.4 and up
	  discId2 &= 0xffffffff
	Compiling /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/morituri/rip/accurip.py ...
	  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/morituri/rip/accurip.py", line 75
	    highest = max(d['confidence'] for d in entries)
	                                    ^
	SyntaxError: invalid syntax
	
	pycentral: pycentral pkginstall: error byte-compiling files (52)
	pycentral pkginstall: error byte-compiling files (52)
	dpkg: error processing morituri (--configure):
	 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
	configured to not write apport reports
	                                      Errors were encountered while processing:
	 morituri
	E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
	A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
	Setting up morituri (0.1.2-1) ...
	Compiling /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/morituri/rip/accurip.py ...
	  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/morituri/rip/accurip.py", line 75
	    highest = max(d['confidence'] for d in entries)
	                                    ^
	SyntaxError: invalid syntax
	
	pycentral: pycentral pkginstall: error byte-compiling files (42)
	pycentral pkginstall: error byte-compiling files (42)
	dpkg: error processing morituri (--configure):
	 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
	Errors were encountered while processing:
	 morituri
	                                         
	255

So the bug is real enough.  Last month F. Greffrath advised:

	Adding ">= 2.4" in debian/pycompat

Assuming that would help, why not do it?

Fix for users.  Uninstall versions of 'python' lower than '2.4':

	# 'dglob' is from the 'debian-goodies' package
	% aptitude remove `dglob -r '^python[0-2].[0-3]$'`

...then wait for the '[y/n] prompt and see that 'aptitude' doesn't
remove too much.  If the removal list isn't ruinous, and the
'remove' goes well, then 'morituri' should install correctly:

	% aptitude install morituri

HTH...


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages morituri depends on:
ii  cdparanoia              3.10.2+debian-10 audio extraction tool for sampling
ii  cdrdao                  1:1.2.3-0.1      records CDs in Disk-At-Once (DAO) 
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-g 0.10.24-1        GStreamer plugins from the "good" 
ii  python                  2.6.6-14         interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-cddb             1.4-5.1+b3       Python interface to CD-IDs and Fre
ii  python-central          0.6.17           register and build utility for Pyt
ii  python-gobject          2.28.3-3         Python bindings for the GObject li
ii  python-gst0.10          0.10.21-2.1      generic media-playing framework (P
ii  python-gtk2             2.24.0-1         Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-musicbrainz2     0.7.3-1          interface to the MusicBrainz XML w
ii  python-pkg-resources    0.6.16-1         Package Discovery and Resource Acc

Versions of packages morituri recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg       1:0.10.11-4.1 FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer

Versions of packages morituri suggests:
ii  gstreamer0.10-lame           0.10.18-0.0 GStreamer lame plugin
pn  python-pycdio                <none>      (no description available)

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