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[Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Julian Edwards wrote:
> Hey folks
> 
> I am in the throes of installing LP on a new laptop on which I installed a 
> fresh copy of lucid.
> 
> Apart from the spidermonkey issue that we already know about, I found another 
> problem when running update-sourcecode:
> 
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/svn/__init__.py", line 
> 120, in init_subvertpy
>     raise DependencyNotPresent("subvertpy", "bzr-svn: %s" % e.message)
> bzrlib.errors.DependencyNotPresent: Unable to import library "subvertpy": bzr-
> svn: 
> 
> 
> It looks like this is down to the fact that update-sourcecode needs subvertpy 
> to run, but subvertpy is built by update-sourcecode ...
> 
> The lucid python-subvertpy package is only built for python 2.6 and the 
> update-sourcecode script is explicitly using python 2.5.

That looks like the packaging is broken somewhere then -- if bzr-svn is
installed in the 2.5 area but python-subvertpy is not, which is what it
looks like, then that's a bug that has nothing to do with Launchpad.

Where are your bzr-svn and python-subvertpy packages from?

>  When I remove that 
> 2.5 to make it use the system python, all seems well.

> Is there a good reason for this script to use 2.5 or can I commit a change to 
> make it use the system python?

Using the system python would probably be OK, but I think finding/fixing
the real bug would be better.

Cheers,
mwh