On May 28, 2010, at 01:33 PM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: >Jakub Wilk found the problem and prepared a list of packages affected: >http://people.debian.org/~jwilk/tmp/string-exceptions.ddlist > >anyone volunteers to check them and report bugs? > >(string exceptions are not allowed in Python >= 2.6) Some of these are surprising (e.g. bzr?! - it has to be Python 2.6 compatible because it comes with Lucid), but they could just be out of date versions. One other thing to keep in mind is that the upstream developers may not be fully aware of the problem. If the exception only gets raised in exceptional circumstances, and those are not tested, then the app or library may not in practice see the failure very often. -Barry
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature