Bug#931097: unattended-upgrades: InvalidURL(f"URL can't contain control characters. {url!r} "
Package: unattended-upgrades
Version: 0.83.3.2+deb8u1
Severity: serious
Justification: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Jessie uses python 3.4 and python 3.4 does not support f"" strings
So now unattended upgrades no longer performs security upgrades.
/etc/cron.daily/apt:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 55, in <module>
import apt
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/__init__.py", line 26, in <module>
from apt.package import Package
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/package.py", line 32, in <module>
from http.client import BadStatusLine
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 1014
raise InvalidURL(f"URL can't contain control characters. {url!r} "
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
The problem is in the file /usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py, changing (f"URL to ("URL will
will allow unattended-upgrades to work again but doesn't do what is intended.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.10
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-0.bpo.5-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages unattended-upgrades depends on:
ii apt 1.0.9.8.5
ii apt-utils 1.0.9.8.5
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56+deb8u1
ii init-system-helpers 1.22
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1
ii lsb-release 4.1+Debian13+nmu1
ii python3 3.4.2-2
ii python3-apt 0.9.3.12
ii ucf 3.0030
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
unattended-upgrades recommends no packages.
Versions of packages unattended-upgrades suggests:
ii bsd-mailx 8.1.2-0.20141216cvs-2
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.84.2-2+deb8u5
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