Comment 7 for bug 746565

This bug was fixed in the package python-distutils-extra - 2.27-1

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python-distutils-extra (2.27-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * auto.py: Cleaner approach to determine whether a module is locally
    provided. This now catches all relative imports. (LP: #746565)
  * Fix installation of symlinks in data/ dir (LP: #770566):
    - test/auto.py: Add test for installing a symlink which points to a
      nonexisting target directory/file. This reproduces the gist of the
      problem.
    - test/auto.py: Preserve symlinks in copytree() calls, so that we can
      actually verify that symlinks are preserved properly.
    - test/auto.py: Drop requirement that diff throws no error messages, as it
      will complain about the broken symlink.
    - DistUtilsExtra/auto.py, install_auto: Use os.walk() instead of
      distutils.filelist.findall() to pick out symlinks, as the latter fails
      badly with broken symlinks.
    - DistUtilsExtra/command/build_icons.py: Ignore symbolic links. distutils
      breaks on them when they point to a nonexisting target, and we handle
      them in auto.py.
  * DistUtilsExtra/auto.py: Put back "except .. as" syntax, now that we
    dropped Python 2.5. Drop 2to3 from debian/rules for good now.
  * debian/control: Bump minimal Python version to >= 2.6.
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