Bug#552190: python-debian: python DeprecationWarning

[John Wright]

Hi Sven,

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 09:30:14AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-10-26 16:52 +0100, John Wright wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 07:39:21AM +0200, Laurent Bonnaud wrote:
> >> # update-apt-xapian-index --quiet
> >> /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/debian_bundle/deb822.py:244:
> >> DeprecationWarning: apt_pkg.ParseTagFile() is deprecated. Please see
> >> apt_pkg.TagFile() for the replacement.
> >>   parser = apt_pkg.ParseTagFile(sequence)
> >> 
> >> This is annoying because every week, /etc/cron.weekly/apt-xapian-index
> >> outputs this warning and an e-mail is sent to the admin.
> >> [...]
> >
> > Unfortunately, the apt_pkg.TagFile interface is not available in the
> > version of python-apt in unstable.  I'll see if the interface is similar
> > enough to the old ParseTagFile one to make deb822 use it if it's
> > available but fall back on the old one if not.  If it would mean a bunch
> > of extra code, I'd prefer to wait until this shows up in unstable.
> 
> Which has just happened with the upload of python-apt 0.7.93 to unstable
> last week.  Today I received a mail from the weekly cron job with the
> above warning.

I have a branch that uses the new TagFile interface.  I'll try to merge
that in and upload this week or weekend.  I also had a "fix" to ignore
the DeprecationWarning in my local git tree, but I never got around to
pushing or uploading.  Sorry about that.

Thanks for the reminder!

-- 
John Wright <jsw at debian.org>