[Python-apps-team] Bug#785503: spambayes: /usr/bin/core_server incompatible with python 2.7 (jessie's {current stable} python)

[Erik Huelsmann]

Hi Hugo,


Thanks for your quick response. The original report contains a patch you
can apply to the sources which are currently in Debian. Upstream simply
took Guido's advice to copy asyncore.py and asynchat.py verbatim into their
own tree [1]. Personally, I'm not in favor of copying a library to each and
every project which wants to use it.

Incidentally, it seems like Python 2.7 is going to be the end of the line
for Python 2.x anyway, so, making spambayes (the Debian package) work with
Python 2.7's asyncore and asynchat seems completely acceptable to me --
Guido's suggestion is to make each project's tree future proof, but there's
no future in Python 2 beyond 2.7 anyway. This is exactly what the patch in
my initial report tries to achieve -- by eliminating code, btw, not by
adding any.

At this point, there are 2 options to fixing the package. Thanks you for
considering them. It's absolutely no problem that you're taking a bit of
time to investigate the fix. If there's anything I can do to help, please
let me know!


Kindest regards,


Erik.


[1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-March/086672.html


On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Hugo Lefeuvre <hugo6390 at fr33tux.org> wrote:

> Hi Erik,
>
> Thanks for reporting bugs.
> I'll try to solve this bug as soon as possible, but I can say you it
> might wait next week (upstream is no more active and other patches are
> conflicting with r3271). I'll investigate to find the good solution.
>
> Best Regards,
>  Hugo
>
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Erik.

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