Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: wireshark

REASON FOR SRU
This is the only change between 1.2.11-4 and 1.2.11-6 which were security 
updates, so if we can SRU this, we can continue to fakesync from squeeze for 
security support


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From: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=585370

Hello,
One of the changes brought by Python 2.6 is the removal of string
exceptions, so they won't work in Python 2.6 (just a side note: they
were also buggy before, since they were not guaranteed to work
reliable even in <2.6); as an example:

$ python2.5 -c "raise 'eggs'"
-c:1: DeprecationWarning: raising a string exception is deprecated
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
eggs

$ python2.6 -c "raise 'eggs'"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: exceptions must be old-style classes or derived from BaseException, 
not str

** Affects: wireshark
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Affects: wireshark (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: wireshark (Ubuntu Maverick)
     Importance: Low
     Assignee: Micah Gersten (micahg)
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: wireshark (Debian)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Also affects: wireshark (Ubuntu Maverick)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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  raise Python 2.6 compatible exceptions

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