[Debian-med-packaging] Help needed for Python3 package python3-bd2k which does not install due to syntax error

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

the Debian Med team is working on python-bd2k[1] which builds fine
and also runs build time tests.  Unfortunately when trying to install
python3-bd2k it fails with:

...
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/bd2k/util/exceptions.py", line 38
    raise exc_type, exc_value, traceback
                  ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/bd2k/util/test/test_panic.py", line 47
    raise exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback
                  ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/bd2k/util/threading.py", line 65
    raise type, value, traceback
              ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

...


I'm pretty sure that will ring a bell for some Python3 programmer and I
hope to be able to fix this quickly with your help to be able to easily
provide the Python3 version in addition to Python2.

Thanks a lot

       Andreas.

[1] https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-med/python-bd2k.git

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