Debian Bug report logs - #585299
python-librdf: Python string exceptions no more allowed in Python 2.6

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Message #5 received at maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sandro Tosi <morph@ravel.debian.org>

To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: python-librdf: Python string exceptions no more allowed in Python 2.6

Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:19:38 +0000

Package: python-librdf
Version: 1.0.10.1-2
Severity: minor
User: debian-python@lists.debian.org
Usertags: python2.6

Hello,
One of the changes brought by Python 2.6 is the removal of string
exceptions, so they won't work in Python 2.6 (just a side note: they
were also buggy before, since they were not guaranteed to work
reliable even in <2.6); as an example:

$ python2.5 -c "raise 'eggs'"
-c:1: DeprecationWarning: raising a string exception is deprecated
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
eggs

$ python2.6 -c "raise 'eggs'"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: exceptions must be old-style classes or derived from BaseException, not str

Since 2.6 is the planned default version for the upcoming new Debian
stable release, there are chances your package may be affected by this
change.

We are not sure your package is impacted, since the exception raise
can be in a dead or very rare branch of the code, and so simply never
being executed. We would like to leverage your package maintainer
status and the relationship with upstream authors to inspect more
deeply the issue and act accordingly (that includes: making this bug
release critical, closing it as irrelevant, tagging it 'wontfix', or
whatever is appropriate).

Jakub Wilk made the discovery of the problem and kindly prepared a
list [1] of all identified packages (downloaded on 2010-06-09) along
with files & lines that triggered the pattern search.

[1] http://people.debian.org/~morph/strexp/string-exceptions.lintian

This mass-bug filing was announced at 2010-06-06 on [2] (see the
thread and the references there).

[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/06/msg00097.html

We do not consider the whole situation a stopper for the Python
transition to 2.6, except (of course) for those single bugs where
severity will be increased.

Thanks in advance for your attention,
Sandro on behalf of debian-python

Message #12 received at 585299-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Dave Beckett <dajobe@debian.org>

To: 585299-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#585299: fixed in redland-bindings 1.0.10.1-3

Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:47:09 +0000

Source: redland-bindings
Source-Version: 1.0.10.1-3

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
redland-bindings, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

librdf-perl_1.0.10.1-3_i386.deb
  to main/r/redland-bindings/librdf-perl_1.0.10.1-3_i386.deb
librdf-ruby_1.0.10.1-3_i386.deb
  to main/r/redland-bindings/librdf-ruby_1.0.10.1-3_i386.deb
php5-librdf_1.0.10.1-3_i386.deb
  to main/r/redland-bindings/php5-librdf_1.0.10.1-3_i386.deb
python-librdf_1.0.10.1-3_i386.deb
  to main/r/redland-bindings/python-librdf_1.0.10.1-3_i386.deb
redland-bindings_1.0.10.1-3.diff.gz
  to main/r/redland-bindings/redland-bindings_1.0.10.1-3.diff.gz
redland-bindings_1.0.10.1-3.dsc
  to main/r/redland-bindings/redland-bindings_1.0.10.1-3.dsc



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 585299@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Dave Beckett <dajobe@debian.org> (supplier of updated redland-bindings package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:27:00 -0700
Source: redland-bindings
Binary: librdf-perl python-librdf librdf-ruby php5-librdf
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.0.10.1-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Dave Beckett <dajobe@debian.org>
Changed-By: Dave Beckett <dajobe@debian.org>
Description: 
 librdf-perl - Perl language bindings for the Redland RDF library
 librdf-ruby - Ruby 1.8 language bindings for the Redland RDF library
 php5-librdf - PHP5 language bindings for the Redland RDF library
 python-librdf - Python language bindings for the Redland RDF library
Closes: 585299
Changes: 
 redland-bindings (1.0.10.1-3) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/control:
     - Standards-Version: 3.9.1
   * debian/patches/01-python-example-exception.patch: Added from upstream
     GIT 72c03eeb3267be06774771be6043cc034d12a827 (Closes: #585299)
   * debian/patches/02-python-unicode-exception.patch: Added from upstream
     GIT commmits 1c5088ed79c7f1c32da2582cfb26a9a5a3010776
     713a4cbc4728c25f6d2398db4a3a4f70827e7765 and
     aaabb24978c9f95d3510a16cac879344ed0452ec to remove crash and
     python exception failure on creating URIs from unicode strings.
     Seen as an error like 'SystemError: error return without exception set'
     in Redland_python.unicode_to_bytes.
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