Comment 0 for bug 81857

Binary package hint: gnome-applets

The postinstall script for gnome-applets version 2.16.1-0ubuntu4 contains a compileall.py
directive which tries to compile /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/py-0.8.0_alpha2-py2.4.egg/py/test/testing/data/syntax_error.py
among others.
However, 'syntax_error.py' is test function designed to be malformed, invalid python (and thus uncompilable).

Workaround I used was to temporarily comment out the one line in syntax_error.py. Temporarily moving it somewhere else would also probably work.

Output of apt-get install
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 Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
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After unpacking, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up gnome-applets (2.16.1-0ubuntu4) ...
Compiling /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/py-0.8.0_alpha2-py2.4.egg/py/test/testing/data/syntax_error.py ...
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/py-0.8.0_alpha2-py2.4.egg/py/test/testing/data/syntax_error.py", line 3
    this is really not python
                            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

dpkg: error processing gnome-applets (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gnome-applets
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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