[Python-apps-team] Bug#943608: tests segfault when run with Python 3.8

[Daniele Nicolodi]

Hello,

On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 13:06:24 +0100 "Dr. Tobias Quathamer"
<toddy at debian.org> wrote:> I've forwarded this bug upstream, and further
investigation by them
> seems to indicate that this is actually a bug in CPython.
> 
> I'm therefore cloning and reassigning this bug, feel free to
> revert this if you don't agree.

A while ago I opened a merge request with upstream with a workaround
that fixes the segfault with CPython 3.8. As it seems that CPython 3.8.1
will be released with the bug not fixed, it may be worth to apply the
patch to the Debian package.

https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/pull-requests/139

All the patch does is to make the C code Python 3.9 ready, avoiding
raising a warning, which ultimately results in the segfault. The patch
seems very low risk to me.

Cheers,
Dan