* Anders Breindahl:
> As unattended-upgrades was doing its thing, my regularly-running
> debsecan-exploitive monitoring suite started throwing these errors on
> regular debsecan invocations:
>
> $ debsecan > /dev/null
> /usr/bin/debsecan:95: DeprecationWarning: PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN will be
> required for '#' formats
> return version_compare(self.__asString, other.__asString) < 0
> /usr/bin/debsecan:98: DeprecationWarning: PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN will be
> required for '#' formats
> return version_compare(self.__asString, other.__asString) == 0
>
> The relevant line in unattended-upgrades seems to be this:
>
> Unpacking python3 (3.8.2-1) over (3.7.5-3)
>
> (Conveniently for bisection, apt-listchanges has the same behaviour, and
> starts spewing these errors only after the above line.)
>
> Please let me know if you'd like any further information!
Isn't this warning triggered by code in python-apt? After all,
debsecan does this near the beginning of the script:
apt_pkg.init()
try:
version_compare = apt_pkg.version_compare
except AttributeError:
version_compare = apt_pkg.VersionCompare
