Bug#585352: [Pkg-uml-pkgs] Bug#585352: rootstrap: Python string exceptions no more allowed in Python 2.6

2011-01-30 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:02:56PM +0100, Riccardo Murri wrote: > As of rootstrap 0.3.24-5, any failure in a rootstrap module triggers > throwing a string exception in builder. With Python 2.6, this gets > particularly annoying since the interpreter throws a TypeError > ("exceptions must be old-st

Bug#585352: rootstrap: Python string exceptions no more allowed in Python 2.6

2011-01-30 Thread Riccardo Murri
As of rootstrap 0.3.24-5, any failure in a rootstrap module triggers throwing a string exception in builder. With Python 2.6, this gets particularly annoying since the interpreter throws a TypeError ("exceptions must be old-style classes or derived from BaseException, not str") that masks rootstra