Posted by Vince Wadhwani on Apr 16, 2008

It took a long time, but Debian Sid looks like it finally managed to get to version 2.5.2 of Python. Why did it take so long? Because lots of packages could have broken on upgrade. And in fact, my compiz fusion-icon got totally borked because of it.

python-compizconfig: Depends: python (< 2.5) but 2.5.2-0.1 is to be installed

Small price to pay to get v2.5 as the default though -- I'm sure it'll get fixed in short order. But if you're running Debian Sid (or Sidux) consider yourself warned..

Update: Looks like compiz fusion icon is now fixed but other packages like Miro are still troublesome.