Bug#622152: [britney2] Port to python2.6 (s/PyFoo_Check/PyFoo_CheckExact/)

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 12:51 +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
> On 11/20/2011 12:17 AM, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 20:54 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 15:36 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
> >>> It seems that britney2 segfaults at every run when compiled for Python
> >>> 2.6. After some quick investigation, the problem boils down to the
> >>> following:
> > [...]
> >> I've finally (!) got to looking at this but have been unable to
> >> reproduce the problem.  It might be a squeeze versus wheezy issue or
> >> some oddity which has resolved itself in the meantime, but after
> >> s/python2.5/python2.6/ in britney-py.c and rebuilding the library on
> >> franck, everything seems to just work[tm].
[...]
> maybe we should close the bug then? (it could be a temporary problem that
> got fixed somewhere since then…)

I was planning on running a py2.6 britney live for a couple of days and
seeing what happened first; what's the worst that could happen? :)

Switching to 2.6 would also get us some other advantages (along with
making DSA happy), like the nicer property decorator syntax.

> P.S.: I'll keep all packages infos next time :/

Thanks.

Regards,

Adam