I applied this patch to my local system, and the python-cheetah build does create the .deb correctly now, but update-python-modules does not seem to byte compile the modules for python2.7 during postinst.

I will attach the output of running 'update-python-modules --verbose -f' to the bug report. Here is an ls of /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6 vs. /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7:


clint@ubuntu:/mnt/clint/merges/cheetah-deb/cheetah-2.4.3$ ls /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6
apt_xapian_index-0.39.egg-info  deb822.pyc                           M2Crypto-0.20.1.egg-info            parsedatetime                         rrdtool.so
axi                             debian                               magic_d.so                          parsedatetime-0.8.7.egg-info          simplejson
boto                            debian_bundle                        Magic_file_extensions-0.1.egg-info  pssh-2.1.1.egg-info                   simplejson-2.1.1.egg-info
boto-1.9b.egg-info              dulwich                              magic.so                            psshlib                               SOAPpy
cairo                           dulwich-0.6.2.egg-info               markdown                            pychart                               SOAPpy-0.12.0.egg-info
Cheetah                         fpconst-0.7.2.egg-info               Markdown-2.0.3.egg-info             PyChart-1.39.egg-info                 stdeb
Cheetah-2.4.3.egg-info          fpconst.py                           mercurial                           pygments                              stdeb-0.6.0.egg-info
clb                             fpconst.pyc                          mercurial-1.6.4.egg-info            Pygments-1.3.1.egg-info               twisted
clb-0.4.1.egg-info              gearman                              moin-1.9.3.egg-info                 pygtk.pth                             ubuntu_dev_tools-0.104.egg-info
configobj-4.7.2.egg-info        GnuPGInterface-0.3.2-py2.6.egg-info  MoinMoin                            pygtk.py                              ubuntutools
configobj.py                    GnuPGInterface.py                    MySQLdb                             pygtk.pyc                             validate.py
configobj.pyc                   GnuPGInterface.pyc                   _mysql_exceptions.py                pyOpenSSL-0.10.egg-info               validate.pyc
dbus                            gtk-2.0                              _mysql_exceptions.pyc               py_rrdtool-0.2.1.egg-info             wadllib
dbus_bindings.py                hgext                                MySQL_python-1.2.2.egg-info         python_debian-0.1.16ubuntu1.egg-info  wadllib-1.1.4.egg-info
dbus_bindings.pyc               jabberbot                            _mysql.so                           python_libgearman-0.13.2.egg-info     werkzeug
_dbus_bindings.so               launchpadlib                         OpenSSL                             reportbug                             Werkzeug-0.6.2.egg-info
_dbus_glib_bindings.so          launchpadlib-1.6.2.egg-info          paramiko                            reportbug-4.12.6ubuntu1.egg-info      ZooKeeper-0.4.egg-info
deb822.py                       M2Crypto                             paramiko-1.7.6-py2.6.egg-info       rrdtool_d.so                          zookeeper.so
clint@ubuntu:/mnt/clint/merges/cheetah-deb/cheetah-2.4.3$ ls /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7
apt_xapian_index-0.39.egg-info  deb822.py                            GnuPGInterface.pyc           moin-1.9.3.egg-info            PyChart-1.39.egg-info                 stdeb-0.6.0.egg-info
axi                             deb822.pyc                           hgext                        MoinMoin                       pygments                              ubuntu_dev_tools-0.104.egg-info
boto                            debian                               jabberbot                    paramiko                       Pygments-1.3.1.egg-info               ubuntutools
boto-1.9b.egg-info              debian_bundle                        launchpadlib                 paramiko-1.7.6-py2.6.egg-info  python_debian-0.1.16ubuntu1.egg-info  validate.py
Cheetah                         fpconst-0.7.2.egg-info               launchpadlib-1.6.2.egg-info  parsedatetime                  reportbug                             validate.pyc
Cheetah-2.4.3.egg-info          fpconst.py                           markdown                     parsedatetime-0.8.7.egg-info   reportbug-4.12.6ubuntu1.egg-info      wadllib
configobj-4.7.2.egg-info        fpconst.pyc                          Markdown-2.0.3.egg-info      pssh-2.1.1.egg-info            SOAPpy                                wadllib-1.1.4.egg-info
configobj.py                    GnuPGInterface-0.3.2-py2.6.egg-info  mercurial                    psshlib                        SOAPpy-0.12.0.egg-info                werkzeug
configobj.pyc                   GnuPGInterface.py                    mercurial-1.6.4.egg-info     pychart                        stdeb                                 Werkzeug-0.6.2.egg-info