python-pygments broken by latest update

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:20:51AM +0200, Andrew Colin Kissa wrote:
> Hi
> 
> The latest update to EPEL5's python-pygments breaks the package for python2.4
> which should not happen.
> 
> - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=662755
> 
> Users should not be forced to install python26, when they want to stick with python2.4
> which is supplied by base and pygments clearly supports python2.4
> 
> - http://pygments.org/docs/installation/
> 
> I have opened a bug request for this.
> 
> - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733612
> 

Heh, I just reported the same bug this morning with a solution:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733432

/me grumbles about packaging python26 modules as subpackages instead of as
separate packages.

> Can the faulty package be unpushed while the issue is being addressed.
> 
Unfortunately, the faulty package has made it to the stable repository.

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-pygments-1.4-1.el5

We don't unpush packages that have gotten that far (as there's no way to
unnstall them from the end user's machine :-(

-Toshio
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