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Re: Packages whith “except” overwriting builtins



2010/8/3 Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>:
> You might be easily mislead into thinking that this code
...
> will catch both IOError and OSError exceptions. In fact, it will not, as it
> is more or less equivalent to:
...
> There are about 50 packages in the archive whose developers make this kind
> of mistake. I have attached log file and dd-list. I'm not willing to do MBF,
> but if someone else is, please feel free to use my data.

What about adding a lintian warning about this? Could file a bug about that?

-- 
bye,
pabs

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