* Sandro Tosi <mo...@ravel.debian.org>, 2010-06-09, 22:19:
One of the changes brought by Python 2.6 is the removal of string exceptions, so they won't work in Python 2.6 (just a side note: they were also buggy before, since they were not guaranteed to work reliable even in <2.6); as an example:$ python2.5 -c "raise 'eggs'" -c:1: DeprecationWarning: raising a string exception is deprecated Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> eggs $ python2.6 -c "raise 'eggs'" Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: exceptions must be old-style classes or derived from BaseException, not str Since 2.6 is the planned default version for the upcoming new Debian stable release, there are chances your package may be affected by this change.
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Jakub Wilk made the discovery of the problem and kindly prepared a list [1] of all identified packages (downloaded on 2010-06-09) along with files & lines that triggered the pattern search. [1] http://people.debian.org/~morph/strexp/string-exceptions.lintian
Besides the stuff listed here, i.e. cpushare/cpushare/seccomp.py:104, there are several less obvious (and thus not automatically detected) instances like:
raise ERROR, <something> raise CHECKERROR, <something> -- Jakub Wilk
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