diff -Nru git-buildpackage-0.4.63/debian/changelog git-buildpackage-0.4.63ubuntu1/debian/changelog
--- git-buildpackage-0.4.63/debian/changelog	2009-12-26 17:20:05.000000000 +0000
+++ git-buildpackage-0.4.63ubuntu1/debian/changelog	2010-02-12 11:28:45.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+git-buildpackage (0.4.63ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low
+
+  * pychecker was removed from Ubuntu as it needs porting to python2.6; drop
+    pychecker build-dep and comment out pychecker invocation in rules; see
+    LP #516932.
+
+ -- Loïc Minier <loic.minier@ubuntu.com>  Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:27:58 +0100
+
 git-buildpackage (0.4.63) unstable; urgency=low
 
   [ Guido Günther ]
diff -Nru git-buildpackage-0.4.63/debian/control git-buildpackage-0.4.63ubuntu1/debian/control
--- git-buildpackage-0.4.63/debian/control	2009-12-24 22:30:39.000000000 +0000
+++ git-buildpackage-0.4.63ubuntu1/debian/control	2010-02-12 11:27:56.000000000 +0000
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
 Build-Depends: cdbs, debhelper (>= 5), python-dev, python-support (>= 0.3),
- pychecker, gtk-doc-tools, sgml2x, docbook-utils, jade, python-dateutil, python-nose
+ gtk-doc-tools, sgml2x, docbook-utils, jade, python-dateutil, python-nose
 Standards-Version: 3.8.3
 Vcs-Git: git://honk.sigxcpu.org/git/git-buildpackage.git
 Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/agx/git-buildpackage.git
diff -Nru git-buildpackage-0.4.63/debian/rules git-buildpackage-0.4.63ubuntu1/debian/rules
--- git-buildpackage-0.4.63/debian/rules	2009-12-24 22:41:49.000000000 +0000
+++ git-buildpackage-0.4.63ubuntu1/debian/rules	2010-02-12 11:27:33.000000000 +0000
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@
 
 %.py: %
 	ln -s $< $@
-	PYTHONPATH=. pychecker -e $(PYCHECK_LEVEL) -q $<
+	# pychecker currently removed from Ubuntu
+	#PYTHONPATH=. pychecker -e $(PYCHECK_LEVEL) -q $<
 
 $(GBP_VERSION): debian/changelog
 	echo 'gbp_version="$(DEB_VERSION)"' > $(GBP_VERSION)