OoO En ce milieu de nuit étoilée du dimanche 06 juin 2010, vers 04:43,
Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> disait :
> A couple of weeks ago, Jakub Wilk noticed this issue and prepared both a DD
> list of affected packages and the grep output that was used to detect
> potentially affected packages. I know some of these packages have been fixed
> already. Please reply to debian-python with fix reports or reports of false
> positives.
False positive for python-nevow (the string is in an example, I won't
fix it). For python-soya and pyvnc2swf, I need to fix them.
Please note that even with the fact that string exceptions are not
supported, they raise a TypeError exception. Since the (almost) only
way to catch a string exception is to catch all exceptions, the
TypeError would be catched as well. Therefore, using a string exception
is a minor bug, IMO.
I say this because this kind of mass bug report will be used again to
explain why python2.6 is still not the default in sid. We still don't
know if our packages will _run_ with python2.6 and we will know it only
just before the release if we keep postponing switch to 2.6.
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Use recursive procedures for recursively-defined data structures.
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