[Debian-med-packaging] Upgrading htseq failed

[Diane Trout]

   raise ValueError, "unsupported typecode"
   
That code seems really archaic.

It really looks like old Python 2 sytax. I think string exceptions were
deprecated a long time ago, and python 3 removed the comma separated
list of exceptions.

On Sun, 2021-01-17 at 15:41 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Diane and others,
> 
> we should try hard to upgrade all our software before the freeze.
> I tried htseq in Git[1] but the build time test fails:
> 
> ...
>    dh_auto_test -O--buildsystem=pybuild
> I: pybuild base:232: cd /build/htseq-
> 0.13.5/.pybuild/cpython3_3.9_htseq/build; python3.9 -m unittest
> discover -v 
> HTSeq (unittest.loader._FailedTest) ... ERROR
> 
> =====================================================================
> =
> ERROR: HTSeq (unittest.loader._FailedTest)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
> ImportError: Failed to import test module: HTSeq
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.9/unittest/loader.py", line 470, in
> _find_test_path
>     package = self._get_module_from_name(name)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.9/unittest/loader.py", line 377, in
> _get_module_from_name
>     __import__(name)
>   File "/build/htseq-
> 0.13.5/.pybuild/cpython3_3.9_htseq/build/HTSeq/__init__.py", line 13,
> in <module>
>     from HTSeq._HTSeq import *
>   File "src/HTSeq/_HTSeq.pyx", line 17, in init HTSeq._HTSeq
>   File "/build/htseq-
> 0.13.5/.pybuild/cpython3_3.9_htseq/build/HTSeq/StepVector.py", line
> 347
>     raise ValueError, "unsupported typecode"
>                     ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
> Ran 1 test in 0.000s
> 
> FAILED (errors=1)
> E: pybuild pybuild:353: test: plugin distutils failed with: exit
> code=1: cd /build/htseq-0.13.5/.pybuild/cpython3_3.9_htseq/build;
> python3.9 -m unittest discover -v 
> 
> 
> Any help would be welcome
> 
>        Andreas.
> 
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/htseq
>