Bug#783981: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'add_metaclass'

[Gilles Mocellin]

Package: python-debian
Followup-For: Bug #783981

Dear Maintainer,

reportbug, apt-xapian-index and certainly other tools still do not work
on jessie (for me).
The only difference I see between my SID install and my Jessie one is
python-six package version.

Now, python-six is available in backports, so I have upgraded it (1.9.0-3~bpo8+1).
And I still have the same error :

~ reportbug 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 38, in <module>
    from reportbug import utils
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/reportbug/utils.py", line 70, in <module>
    import debbugs
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/reportbug/debbugs.py", line 43, in <module>
    import checkversions
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/reportbug/checkversions.py", line 39, in <module>
    from debian.deb822 import Deb822
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debian/deb822.py", line 1481, in <module>
    @six.add_metaclass(_ClassInitMeta)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'add_metaclass'

Ah !
I've just made a diff of strace calls whime launching reportbug...
I have manually installed python modules in /usr/local (via pip), and there is a six module (1.6.0) : that's it.

And no need to upgrade to the backported version of python-six, it works with 1.8.0-1.

Bug can be closed, it was not a bug...


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)