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has caused the report #585347,
regarding r-cran-nws: Python string exceptions no more allowed in Python 2.6
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
author(s) Steve Weston <stephen.b.wes...@gmail.com>
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Hi Steve.
Here is one of two nws / python 2.6. Do you feel like looking at this or
shall we toss it over to Revolution?
Dirk
On 9 June 2010 at 22:19, Sandro Tosi wrote:
| Package: r-cran-nws
| Version: 2.0.0.3-1
| Severity: minor
| User: debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org
| Usertags: python2.6
|
| Hello,
| tOne 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.
|
| We are not sure your package is impacted, since the exception raise
| can be in a dead or very rare branch of the code, and so simply never
| being executed. We would like to leverage your package maintainer
| status and the relationship with upstream authors to inspect more
| deeply the issue and act accordingly (that includes: making this bug
| release critical, closing it as irrelevant, tagging it 'wontfix', or
| whatever is appropriate).
|
| 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
|
| This mass-bug filing was announced at 2010-06-06 on [2] (see the
| thread and the references there).
|
| [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/06/msg00097.html
|
| We do not consider the whole situation a stopper for the Python
| transition to 2.6, except (of course) for those single bugs where
| severity will be increased.
|
| Thanks in advance for your attention,
| Sandro on behalf of debian-python
|
|
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Regards, Dirk
h
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