package: python-support
version: 1.0.3
Consider a package foo that provides both a python module (say, foo.bar)
and a python program baz that imports foo.bar. With the current
python-support implementation, it is not possible to run baz in the
package's postinst script. What will happen is that the "import foo.bar"
line of baz will fail in the postinst script with
ImportError: No module named foo
because /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/foo/__init__.py doesn't exist yet.
(It is created by the python-support trigger that runs after installation
completes.)
It seems like one could fix this by having python-support create its empty
__init__.py file when update-python-modules is run, rather than delaying
until the trigger is processed.
It is quite possible that this problem will also affect situations where
the package running bar in its postinst script depends on the package
containing foo.bar and the packages are installed at the same time, but
I've not tested it.
For now, I've worked around this problem by using python-central.
-Tim Abbott
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