Bug#553271: python-pyx: import failing because of missing ..

Package: python-pyx
Version: 0.10-0+nmu3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

During importing pyx, I get the following error message with python2.5 (same with python2.4):

Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Sep 26 2009, 08:19:36)
[GCC 4.3.4] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pyx
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py", line 40, in <module>

File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py", line 25, in <module>

File "pyx/graph/data.py", line 29, in <module>
File "pyx/graph/style.py", line 28, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name mesh

If I create manually a soft link to mesh.py in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pyx
everything works.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Versions of packages python-pyx depends on:
ii libc6 2.10.1-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libkpathsea4 2007.dfsg.2-8 TeX Live: path search library for
ii python 2.5.4-3 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-support 1.0.4 automated rebuilding support for P

Versions of packages python-pyx recommends:
ii texlive-latex-base 2007.dfsg.2-4 TeX Live: Basic LaTeX packages

Versions of packages python-pyx suggests:
ii python-imaging 1.1.6-3.1 Python Imaging Library
ii python-pyx-doc 0.10-0+nmu3 Python module for generating PostS
ii texlive-fonts-recommended 2007.dfsg.2-4 TeX Live: Recommended fonts




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Hi Johann,

Thanks for the report. This looks decidedly like a bug in python-central:

http://bugs.debian.org/479852

although there is some discussion as to whether each separate package should
work around this bug itself or if python-central should deal with this
situation.

Can you confirm for me that you previously had python-pyx installed and that
this was an upgrade from a version 0.10-0+nmu1 or earlier? (i.e. not a fresh
installation)

The directory where you found all the pyx files
( /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pyx) actually should be empty with this
package now; pyx should be found in /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/pyx/.
If you upgraded from the 0.9 version, then you could well have a very strange
mix of 0.9 and 0.10 in there. In any case, running

pycentral pkgremove python-pyx

should clean up that directory (it should
remove /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/pyx/ in fact), leaving you with a working
pyx installation.

I have an updated package ready to do this automatically on upgrade but want
to make sure that I understand the problem first.

regards
Stuart

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