[Python-modules-team] Bug#471825: python-scipy: Uninstallable, broken symlink /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/LICENSE.txt

[Ondrej Certik]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Ondrej Certik <ondrej at certik.cz> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Erich Schubert <erich at debian.org> wrote:
>  > Package: python-scipy
>  >  Version: 0.6.0-9
>  >  Severity: important
>  >
>  >  [...]
>  >  file does not exist: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/LICENSE.txt
>  >  pycentral: pycentral pkginstall: error byte-compiling files (534)
>  >  pycentral pkginstall: error byte-compiling files (534)
>  >  [...]
>  >
>  >   /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/LICENSE.txt ->
>  >   /usr/share/pyshared/scipy/LICENSE.txt
>  >
>  >  is a dangling symlink.
>
>  Oops, you are right. I screwed it up. But I did test it, by installing
>  it, before uploading, that's why I don't understand how it happened.
>  Now,
>  when I test it from the archive, it indeed fails both on i386 and amd64.

We are fixing this with Kumar. Our current fix makes the package build
& install,
but it introduced a lintian warning. In anycase, a working package
(either with or without a lintian warning) will be uploaded
before a dinstall run.

Ondrej