Re: Packages whith “except” overwriting builtins
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> 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?
How would you implement the warning? There's no way to easily tell
whether a given name is an existing class name or not.
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