There is a new import statement syntax. I think you should upgrade your python. I have no experience with Debian, but on the seveal other linux distros I used this upgrade is easy and harmless. Nadav. 2011/12/23 harish badrinath <harishbadrinath@gmail.com>

Hello, I cant seem to build scikits-image from source using debuild.

Here are the steps i followed: a)I checkout master and debian branches in seprate directories. b) export master branch as a tar ball c) run dh_make (a debian specific packaging helper script) d) copy the contents of the debian directory to the directory in which i ran dh_make e) run debbuild

The log of the build is <snip> dh clean --buildsystem python_distutils dh_testdir -O--buildsystem=python_distutils dh_auto_clean -O--buildsystem=python_distutils Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 101, in <module> cmdclass={'build_py': build_py}, File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/numpy/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup config = configuration() File "setup.py", line 42, in configuration config.add_subpackage('skimage') File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 957, in add_subpackage caller_level = 2) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 926, in get_subpackage caller_level = caller_level + 1) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 863, in _get_configuration_from_setup_py config = setup_module.configuration(*args) File "skimage/setup.py", line 8, in configuration config.add_subpackage('graph') File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 957, in add_subpackage caller_level = 2) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 926, in get_subpackage caller_level = caller_level + 1) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 848, in _get_configuration_from_setup_py ('.py', 'U', 1)) File "skimage/graph/setup.py", line 3, in <module> from skimage._build import cython File "/home/code/projs/scikits-image-master/scikits-image-0.4/skimage/__init__.py", line 64 from .util.dtype import * SyntaxError: 'import *' not allowed with 'from .' dh_auto_clean: python2.5 setup.py clean -a returned exit code 1 make: *** [clean] Error 1 dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules clean gave error exit status 2 debuild: fatal error at line 1325: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc failed </snip> Since i have very little experience with python, its build system, etc any help would be appreciated.

Regards, Harish