Mass bug report filing: ‘python-lockfile’ API breakage in version 0.9

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Howdy all,

Some Debian packages have a dependency on ‘python-lockfile’, without
accounting for the API breakage introduced in version 0.9 of that
package.

This breakage was announced in 2014-11 to package maintainers of the
reverse dependencies at that time; once copy of the message is at
<URL:https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/python-modules-team/2014-November/022840.html>.

The upgrade of ‘python-lockfile’ in Debian has now happened; Sid
contains “python-lockfile/1:0.10.2-1”. Packages which do not distinguish
this from versions prior to 0.9 need to correct that in their dependency
specifications.

I will file bug reports against packages in Sid today which have a
dependency on ‘python-lockfile’ that do not acknowledge the
incompatibility in version “python-lockfile >=0.9”.


I started with the output of::

    $ cat /var/lib/apt/lists/*Packages \
        | grep-dctrl -F Depends,Recommends,Suggests \
            -s Package,Maintainer,Depends 'python-lockfile' \
        | sed -e 's/^Depends: .*\(python-lockfile[^,]*\),.*$/Depends: \1/'

and removed the ‘python-lockfile’ packages themselves. The result is 18
unique packages.

All of these now have the problem described above. None have
‘python-lockfile’ in any relationship other than Depends, which allows
me to present the command above simplified to present only that
relationship.


$ dd-list $( cat /var/lib/apt/lists/*Packages \
    | grep-dctrl -F Depends,Recommends,Suggests \
        -s Package,Maintainer,Depends 'python-lockfile' \
    | sed -e 's/^Depends: .*\(python-lockfile[^,]*\),.*$/Depends: \1/' \
    | grep '^Package:' | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | sort | uniq )

Alexander Zangerl <az@debian.org>
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Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
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Ben Finney