Andi, Debian's infrastructure is designed such that a source package is not allowed to be a build dependency. Matthew, please file a wishlist bug against swig, requesting a version update.
>Okay, I'll try to build it with a free software java stack. >However, if that proves too difficult is building it with a >non-free JDK and putting the package in contrib an option? Absolutely. It took a couple of years to graduate Java Lucene from contrib to main; there's no reason PyLucene can't follow a similar path.