Hello.

Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org> (30/07/2012):
> Since the version of testing, this contains mostly bug fixes and
> many translation updates, but also (starting with 0.8.5) one new
> module (apt.auth) which is a cleaned up version of an internal
> software-properties module (and not used by any code in unstable
> AFAIK).

Then I'm not sure we need or want this new module in wheezy…

> The versions 0.8.5 and 0.8.6 FTBFS due to this new module, as it did
> not pass the test suite due to two bugs: (1) missing build-time
> dependency on version 0.9.6 of apt (and outdated buildds) [fixed in
> 0.8.6], and (2) because it combined the stderr and stdout of the
> apt-key command it calls which fails to work on kFreeBSD if
> LD_PRELOAD is set, as gpg (which is run by apt-key) is setuid there
> [and we use fakeroot for the apt.auth tests, so it fails]. The
> latter was fixed in 0.8.7.

Especially when it took that long to get it to basically work. :(

I'll leave the pythonish review to some other python-fluent release
team members anyway; just a bit astonished to see new code at this
point.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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