dependency of python 2.6

I can confirm this. Simulating installation of python-pyside on an Oneiric i386 system indicates that python2.6 and libpython2.6 would be installed, and running "apt-get -s remove python-pyside.qtcore+ python2.6 libpython2.6" shows that pyside's current dependencies cannot be fulfilled even minimally without libpython2.6 (which itself has python2.6 as a required dependency). Alternatively, see python-pyside's depedencies' dependencies as listed at http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/python-pyside, for example, python-pyside.qtcore's dependencies at http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/python-pyside.qtcore.

As indicated at http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/PySide_FAQ, upstream PySide has stable support for python 2.7, and rebuilding the software is all that is necessary.

Or perhaps Ubuntu's pyside is already built to work with either python2.6 or python2.7, and all that's necessary is to make its libpython2.6/libpython2.7 dependencies disjunctive, like its direct python2.6/python2.7 dependencies already are.

/me puts his Debian PySide maintainer hat on.

As far as I can see, a rebuild is all what is necessary to fix this bug. Perhaps sync'ing 1.0.5-2 from Debian (including a rebuild) is enough.

> Perhaps sync'ing 1.0.5-2 from Debian (including a rebuild) is enough.

Can't be done with out debhelper 8.9.3, which apiextractor wants.

> As far as I can see, a rebuild is all what is necessary to fix this bug.

I disagree, I see exactly the same situation in sid:
Depends: ... libpython2.6 (>= 2.6), libpython2.7 (>= 2.7) ...

should from fixed in precise onwards as python2.6 does not exist there
I don't think its worth fixing in oneiric anymore

Okay, I am on 11.10, and I see this is marked 'fix released'. There is no fix in 11.10. How do I at least work around this?

11.10 goes out of support in 1 month.

The workaround is to let apt install python2.6