Your message dated Wed, 30 Nov 2022 18:10:05 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#938168: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #814477, regarding python-pkg-resources: Package from backports break functioning of python apps to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: python-pkg-resources Version: 18.8-1~bpo8+1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Installing package from backports branch (and newer, i.e. from sid) break many python software unusable. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Try to run apps, like bpython and many others. Try this for example: Example in python: >>> from pkg_resources import load_entry_point * What was the outcome of this action? Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3138, in <module> @_call_aside File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3124, in _call_aside f(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3151, in _initialize_master_working_set working_set = WorkingSet._build_master() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 652, in _build_master ws = cls() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 645, in __init__ self.add_entry(entry) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 701, in add_entry for dist in find_distributions(entry, True): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2139, in find_on_path path_item, entry, metadata, precedence=DEVELOP_DIST File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2521, in from_location py_version=py_version, platform=platform, **kw File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2835, in _reload_version md_version = _version_from_file(self._get_metadata(self.PKG_INFO)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2486, in _version_from_file line = next(iter(version_lines), '') File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2654, in _get_metadata for line in self.get_metadata_lines(name): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2030, in get_metadata_lines return yield_lines(self.get_metadata(name)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2025, in get_metadata metadata = f.read() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/codecs.py", line 296, in decode (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xb6 in position 147: invalid start byte * What outcome did you expect instead? Importing from pkg_resources module OK, like in module from stable branch work. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages python-pkg-resources depends on: pn python:any <none> python-pkg-resources recommends no packages. Versions of packages python-pkg-resources suggests: ii python-setuptools 18.8-1~bpo8+1 -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 44.1.1-1.2+rm Dear submitter, as the package python-setuptools 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/938168 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. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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