python-numeric-tutorial package does not depend on python2.3 but requires it

Confirmed (though the package is in universe <g>). The .deb extracts partly to /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages, and subsequently the postinst script fails: If there exists a directory /usr/lib/python${version} for more than one version of python, the ${package}.postinst script defaults to the first version it can find (i.e. the lowest). This problem can be discovered with several postinst scripts for python modules (at least in universe). A quick-and-dirty fix is to move the extracted modules from /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages to /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages, edit the failing postinst script in /var/lib/dpkg/info (change the line "PV=`dpkg --listfiles $PACKAGE (...)" to "PV=2.4"), and run "/var/lib/dpkg/info/${package}.postinst configure" from the shell.

    Another alternative is to use the new logic applied to solfege: specifically:

PV=`ls -la \`which python\`|cut -d ">" -f 2|cut -d "n" -f 2`

Fixed with 24.2-1ubuntu1