pycompile defaults to python 2.5, should use python 2.6 in Lucid

I can't reproduce this on a lucid live CD

Hmmm Odd.

/usr/bin/pycompile on my systems has the following configuration:

SUPPORTED_VERSIONS = [(2, 5), (2, 6), (3, 1)]
DEFAULT_VERSION = (2, 5)

Obviously if I change the default version 2.6 I can compile without needing to specify the version on the command line.

Package: python-minimal
Essential: yes
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: python
Installed-Size: 120
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: all
Source: python-defaults
Version: 2.6.5-0ubuntu1
Replaces: python (<= 2.4-1)
Depends: python2.6-minimal (>= 2.6.5), dpkg (>= 1.13.20)
Recommends: python
Conflicts: python (<= 2.4-1), python-central (<< 0.5.5)
Description: A minimal subset of the Python language (default version)
 This package contains the interpreter and some essential modules. It's used
 in the boot process for some basic tasks.
 See /usr/share/doc/python2.6-minimal/README.Debian for a list of the modules
 contained in this package.
Original-Maintainer: Matthias Klose <email address hidden>

Is this still an issue?

yes, this is still an issue, I was able to reconfirm it.

Both 2.6.5-0ubuntu1.1 and 2.6.5-0ubuntu2 are free to use as version numbers for this release. Looking at http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/pending-sru.html it seems that these days there is a preference for -0ubuntu1.1. Pick the one you like best ;)

Just letting you know that python-minimal-2.6.5-0ubuntu1 is still the latest version in Lucid, and this bug is still present. This bug is a year old, Lucid is still LTS, and a patch is available.

And it is a bug. This causes an error message when installing any package that depends on pycompile, which many python packages do. Please, please fix this.

Hello tuxinvader, or anyone else affected,

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Works here.

This bug was fixed in the package python-defaults - 2.6.5-0ubuntu1.1

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python-defaults (2.6.5-0ubuntu1.1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * default to python 2.6 for pycompile. LP: #566441.
 -- Rolf Leggewie <email address hidden> Sat, 16 Jul 2011 20:17:44 +0900

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