Bug#1032995: spyder: Spyder on startup says there is a missing dependency (pylsp_black) but it is correctly installed

[Julian Gilbey]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 09:02:54AM -0700, Brian Vaughan wrote:
> I have good news and bad news.
> 
> The good news is that the issue seems to have been fixed as of today. I
> don't get the error popup, and Help > Dependencies shows pylsp_black
> installed and at version 1.21.
> 
> The bad news is I'm not sure what fixed it. I realized I made the mistake of
> following my daily routine of updating my system, which is not a good idea
> when troubleshooting. I checked the changelog dates on the dependencies for
> python3-spyder, and the most recently updated were python3-pygments on April
> 19, and python3-cookiecutter and python3-sphinx on March 29.
> 
> The only updates today were chromium, chromium-common, and chromium-sandbox,
> updated to 114.0.5735.90-2. Maybe those are indirect dependencies?

Oh :(  Well, I'm glad it's now working, but as you say, it will be
probably now be impossible to identify the source of the bug.  I had a
quick look at the previous version of the chromium packages, and
there's nothing obvious there, so that's almost certainly not the
cause.

I wonder whether it's a package you updated yesterday that fixed
things?  You could check the aptitude logs (assuming you used
aptitude).

Best wishes,

   Julian