Your message dated Sun, 3 Jul 2016 11:22:15 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line closing bugs reported against ancient python versions has caused the Debian Bug report #451274, regarding python2.5: [mailbox] cannot modify mailboxes in system mail spool to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: python2.5 Version: 2.5-5 Severity: normal Hi, the mailbox module in python 2.5 cannot modify mboxes in read-only directories, e.g. the system mail spool. This is because mailbox._singlefileMailbox.flush() tries to write the modified mailbox to a temporary file and then rename it. See: penelope[tmp]$ python2.5 Python 2.5 (release25-maint, Dec 9 2006, 14:35:53) [GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-20)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import mailbox >>> mbox = mailbox.mbox("/var/mail/nikolaus") >>> mbox.clear() >>> mbox.close() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/mailbox.py", line 623, in close self.flush() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/mailbox.py", line 570, in flush new_file = _create_temporary(self._path) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/mailbox.py", line 1885, in _create_temporary os.getpid())) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/mailbox.py", line 1875, in _create_carefully fd = os.open(path, os.O_CREAT | os.O_EXCL | os.O_RDWR) OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/mail/nikolaus.1195061622.penelope.4241' >>> See also bug #451204. It pretty much looks like no one has ever tested mailbox.py with such scenarios. :-( Nikolaus -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-k7 Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages python2.5 depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.3-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdb4.4 4.4.20-8 Berkeley v4.4 Database Libraries [ ii libncursesw5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libreadline5 5.2-2 GNU readline and history libraries ii libsqlite3-0 3.3.8-1.1 SQLite 3 shared library ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8c-4etch1 SSL shared libraries ii mime-support 3.39-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap ii python2.5-minimal 2.5-5 A minimal subset of the Python lan python2.5 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---This bug has been reported against an ancient version of python (2.5/3.1), that was last released with Debian 6.0 (squeeze). But even squeeze-lts has now reached end-of-life and is no longer supported. The bug is assumed to be fixed (or no longer relevant) in newer python releases and therefore I'm closing this report now. If the problem is still reproducible in the currently supported versions (python2.7, python3.5/python3.6), feel free to provide more information, reopen and reassign this bug report. Andreas
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