[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#634859: Please switch dbus-python to dh_python2

[José Manuel Santamaría Lema]

Package: dbus-python
Severity: important
Tags: patch
User: debian-qt-kde at lists.debian.org
Usertags: dh_python2-qt4


Hello,

As far as I know the Debian Python Team started a transition to drop python-
support and use dh_python2 instead[1].

Switching dbus-python to dh_python2 will make temporarily unusable the python-
qt4-dbus which should switch to dh_python2 as well. I will file a bug report 
with patch against that package. Switching python-qt4-dbus (source package 
python-qt4) will break python-qwt5-qt4, python-qwt3d-qt4 and python-
qscintilla2 until they switch too; I will file bug reports against them as 
well.

Note that we (Debian Qt/KDE Mainatiners) uploaded a newer pykde4 using 
dh_python2 by mistake without being aware of the consequences, therefore 
pykde4 and systemconfig-printer-kde are broken, and will stay broken until both 
dbus-python an python-qt4 use dh_python2. We talked about it and we decided to 
just leave them broken for now. Hence why I'm filing this bug report.

Last but not least, note that I don't actually work on python stuff, please 
review the patch carefully. Also when applying the patch, please replace my 
dummy changelog entry with a proper one.

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2011/02/msg00008.html

Cheers.
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