python-daemon: wrong exception message in version 1.5.5

[Ben Finney]

On 18-May-2014, Holger Müller wrote:
> I found a glitch in your great python-daemon module.
> 
> While writing a daemon I missed the point, that uid and gid has to
> be nummeric. But if you supply a named user you'll get an "Unable to
> change file creation mask" exception, which is a little bit
> missleading.

It is, you're right. We have addressed this in a previous version,
python-daemon 1.6.

Unfortunately the ‘lockfile’ library started becoming incompatible
around that time, which brings its own problems, so version 1.6 hasn't
seen a proper release.

> Here's my patch suggestion:

Thank you!

> It's a pitty that there's no official source repository

The project <URL:https://alioth.debian.org/projects/python-daemon/>
has an official VCS and discussion forums.

> which makes patch submitting/bug tracking a little bit harder.

There is a development discussion forum (Cc-ed on this message) and a
bug-specific forum.

Hope that helps, and thank you for the bug report. I hope
‘python-daemon’ continues to be useful for your work.

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Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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