Re: Possible Mass Bug Filing: String Exceptions Removed in Python 2.6

2010-08-13 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Scott Kitterman , 2010-06-05, 22:43: As was recently discussed on debian-python: http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2010/05/msg00111.html String exceptions are no longer supported at all in Python 2.6. Many string exceptions has been fixed since then, but - interestingly - a few new has

Re: Possible Mass Bug Filing: String Exceptions Removed in Python 2.6

2010-06-09 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 04:43, Scott Kitterman wrote: > Without examining each package in detail, it's difficult to know the impact of > this error on each package.  I expect to file the bugs at normal severity and > leave it to maintainers to adjust it up or down. The MBF just happened (result: 1

Re: Possible Mass Bug Filing: String Exceptions Removed in Python 2.6

2010-06-09 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 21:15, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 09:05:49PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 01:39, Steve Langasek wrote: >> >> Please reply to debian-python with fix reports or reports of false >> >> positives. > >> > Not quite either of these, but

Re: Possible Mass Bug Filing: String Exceptions Removed in Python 2.6

2010-06-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 09:05:49PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 01:39, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> Please reply to debian-python with fix reports or reports of false > >> positives. > > Not quite either of these, but in a similar vein, I've filed bug #584833 > > against gourm

Re: Possible Mass Bug Filing: String Exceptions Removed in Python 2.6

2010-06-09 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 01:39, Steve Langasek wrote: >> Please reply to debian-python with fix reports or reports of false >> positives. > > Not quite either of these, but in a similar vein, I've filed bug #584833 > against gourmet with the patch from Ubuntu for this issue as part of regular > due

Re: Possible Mass Bug Filing: String Exceptions Removed in Python 2.6

2010-06-07 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 05, 2010, at 10:43 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: I filed a bug on bzr and it was fixed, though I don't know if it's released yet or not. It was a corner case anyway so probably not a show stopper. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Possible Mass Bug Filing: String Exceptions Removed in Python 2.6

2010-06-07 Thread Luca Falavigna
Il 06/06/2010 4.43, Scott Kitterman ha scritto: > A couple of weeks ago, Jakub Wilk noticed this issue and prepared both a DD > list of affected packages and the grep output that was used to detect > potentially affected packages. I know some of these packages have been fixed > already. Please

Re: Possible Mass Bug Filing: String Exceptions Removed in Python 2.6

2010-06-06 Thread Steve Langasek
> Please reply to debian-python with fix reports or reports of false > positives. Not quite either of these, but in a similar vein, I've filed bug #584833 against gourmet with the patch from Ubuntu for this issue as part of regular due diligence on the Ubuntu side - so gourmet should probably be

Re: Possible Mass Bug Filing: String Exceptions Removed in Python 2.6

2010-06-06 Thread Jan Dittberner
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 10:43:27PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > As was recently discussed on debian-python: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2010/05/msg00111.html > > String exceptions are no longer supported at all in Python 2.6. Since this > is > the Python version planned to be

Re: Possible Mass Bug Filing: String Exceptions Removed in Python 2.6

2010-06-06 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Vincent Bernat , 2010-06-06, 12:34: Please note that even with the fact that string exceptions are not supported, they raise a TypeError exception. Since the (almost) only way to catch a string exception is to catch all exceptions, the TypeError would be catched as well. This is a bit oversim

Re: Possible Mass Bug Filing: String Exceptions Removed in Python 2.6

2010-06-06 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En ce milieu de nuit étoilée du dimanche 06 juin 2010, vers 04:43, Scott Kitterman disait : > A couple of weeks ago, Jakub Wilk noticed this issue and prepared both a DD > list of affected packages and the grep output that was used to detect > potentially affected packages. I know some o

Re: Possible Mass Bug Filing: String Exceptions Removed in Python 2.6

2010-06-06 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 06/06/10 04:43, Scott Kitterman wrote: > A couple of weeks ago, Jakub Wilk noticed this issue and prepared both a DD > list of affected packages and the grep output that was used to detect > potentially affected packages. I know some of these packages have been fixed > already. Please reply

Possible Mass Bug Filing: String Exceptions Removed in Python 2.6

2010-06-05 Thread Scott Kitterman
As was recently discussed on debian-python: http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2010/05/msg00111.html String exceptions are no longer supported at all in Python 2.6. Since this is the Python version planned to be the default in Squeeze, packages still using them should be fixed. String exce