[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#838266: Salvaging pylibtiff to Debian Python team or removing it from Debian?

[Maximiliano Curia]

¡Hola Andreas!

El 2016-10-21 a las 09:36 +0200, Andreas Tille escribió:
> the former maintainer of pylibtiff inside Debian Med team Mathieu 
> Malaterre does not care for the package any more and thus I tried 
> my luck to salvage it.  I have no personal interest in this package 
> nor does it have any rdepends.  There is no direct connection to 
> the Debian Med topic but since there are some users according to 
> popcon[1] it might be worth saving.

I won't be able to work on this in the foreseeable future, but I can probably 
help with the mentioned errors.

>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libtiff/libtiff_ctypes.py", line 36 
>    print 'You should add %r to PATH environment variable and reboot.' % (os.path.dirname (lib)) 
>                                                                     ^ 
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

This looks valid, but probably fails if using:
 from __future__ import print_function
you can probably fix this by adding the parenthesis needed for the function 
invocation:
 print('You should add %r to PATH environment variable and reboot.' % (os.path.dirname (lib)))

>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libtiff/optparse_gui.py", line 201 
>    print(msg, file=sys.stderr) 
>                   ^ 
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

This is probably failing because of a missing:
 from __future__ import print_function
at the beginning of the file (it needs to be added before any other import).

In python2 print is a statement that you use as print "Hi", in python3 it's a
function that you use as print("Hi"), using the __future__ snippet you can use 
(in python 2.7) print as a function, this is generally a good idea as it eases 
the migration to python3 process.

Happy hacking,
-- 
"If you have too many special cases, you are doing it wrong." -- Craig Zarouni
 Saludos /\/\ /\ >< `/
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