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and subject line Bug#945705: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #940992,
regarding firefoxdriver: does not work with firefox > 47 at all
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: firefoxdriver
Version: 3.14.1-1
Severity: grave
Justification: unusable by everyone
This is what happens when you try to use firefoxdriver in the most
obvious way from python on buster:
| $ dpkg -l python3-selenium
| ...
| ii python3-selenium 3.14.1+dfsg1-1 all Python3 bindings for Selenium
| $ python3
| Python 3.7.3 (default, Apr 3 2019, 05:39:12)
| [GCC 8.3.0] on linux
| Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
| >>> import selenium.webdriver
| >>> selenium.webdriver.Firefox()
| Traceback (most recent call last):
| File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py",
line 76, in start
| stdin=PIPE)
| File "/usr/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 775, in __init__
| restore_signals, start_new_session)
| File "/usr/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 1522, in _execute_child
| raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
| FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'geckodriver':
'geckodriver'
|
| During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
|
| Traceback (most recent call last):
| File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
| File
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line
164, in __init__
| self.service.start()
| File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py",
line 83, in start
| os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)
| selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'geckodriver'
executable needs to be in PATH.
|
| >>>
A little research reveals that this problem already has surfaced
elsewhere e.g. at
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1104721/sudo-apt-install-firefoxdriver-does-what.
A more detailed answer at
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43272919/difference-between-webdriver-firefox-marionette-webdriver-gecko-driver/43920453
indicates that the extenstion-powered method employed by firefoxdriver
only works until firefox 47. Later versions need "marionette" which
usually manifestst as "geckodriver" which is missing from the
firefoxdriver package.
Given that even old-old-stable has firefox 52 already, I think we can
safely conclude that the present firefoxdriver is broken for everyone.
For unstable, I guess geckodriver needs to be packaged. For buster it
may be best to simply remove the package in a point release.
Also an autopkgtest would be a very good addition for this package to
catch similar issues earlier.
Helmut
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 3.14.1-1+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package selenium-firefoxdriver has just been removed from the Debian
archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/945705
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
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Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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