Bug#585343: python-zope.publisher: Python string exceptions no more allowed in Python 2.6

[Brian Sutherland]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 10:19:39PM +0000, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> Package: python-zope.publisher
> Version: 3.11.0-1
> Severity: minor
> User: debian-python at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: python2.6

This is indeed an issue with python-zope.publisher. It is quite minor
because the string exceptions are only in test code and thus never used
in production.

I patched this directly upstream, the patch will be released with 3.11.4
or higher.

The patch is:
    https://mail.zope.org/pipermail/checkins/2010-June/047574.html

> 
> Hello,
> One of the changes brought by Python 2.6 is the removal of string
> exceptions, so they won't work in Python 2.6 (just a side note: they
> were also buggy before, since they were not guaranteed to work
> reliable even in <2.6); as an example:
> 
> $ python2.5 -c "raise 'eggs'"
> -c:1: DeprecationWarning: raising a string exception is deprecated
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> eggs
> 
> $ python2.6 -c "raise 'eggs'"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: exceptions must be old-style classes or derived from BaseException, not str
> 
> Since 2.6 is the planned default version for the upcoming new Debian
> stable release, there are chances your package may be affected by this
> change.
> 
> We are not sure your package is impacted, since the exception raise
> can be in a dead or very rare branch of the code, and so simply never
> being executed. We would like to leverage your package maintainer
> status and the relationship with upstream authors to inspect more
> deeply the issue and act accordingly (that includes: making this bug
> release critical, closing it as irrelevant, tagging it 'wontfix', or
> whatever is appropriate).
> 
> Jakub Wilk made the discovery of the problem and kindly prepared a
> list [1] of all identified packages (downloaded on 2010-06-09) along
> with files & lines that triggered the pattern search.
> 
> [1] http://people.debian.org/~morph/strexp/string-exceptions.lintian
> 
> This mass-bug filing was announced at 2010-06-06 on [2] (see the
> thread and the references there).
> 
> [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/06/msg00097.html
> 
> We do not consider the whole situation a stopper for the Python
> transition to 2.6, except (of course) for those single bugs where
> severity will be increased.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your attention,
> Sandro on behalf of debian-python
> 
> 
> 
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Brian Sutherland