Public bug reported:

- Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
- pyton3-powerline 2.8.4-1

I expect a plain `powerline-daemon` to run and do its job, instead it
throws an exception.

The `powerline-daemon` command as shipped in 26.04 uses nested
[`ArgumentParser.add_argument_group`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#argparse.ArgumentParser.add_argument_group),
which raises an exception since Python 3.14. See the
`powerline/commands/daemon.py` in the powerline upstream repository for
the obvious simple fix (removing all argument groups):
https://github.com/powerline/powerline/commit/11808cbe5c16e4621edcaefa916b5add81eab799#diff-6f9521060cd3291294e6a4281394b0d2bee834fe2647901cd049c02ba9a98d25.

Note: There is no new release for powerline yet, so I have asked for one
in https://github.com/powerline/powerline/issues/2289. You may as well
just apply the patch to `powerline-daemon` alias
`powerline/commands/daemon.py`. On my machine, this sufficed to get the
daemon running.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 26.04
Package: python3-powerline 2.8.4-1 [modified: 
usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/powerline/commands/daemon.py]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 7.0.0-28.28-generic 7.0.12
Uname: Linux 7.0.0-28-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.34.1-0ubuntu0.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Jul 31 16:05:16 2026
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: powerline
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to resolute on 2026-07-31 (0 days ago)

** Affects: powerline (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug resolute wayland-session

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