[Python-apps-team] Bug#976702: vdirsyncer: crashes with runtime error

[gregor herrmann]

Control: tags + fixed-upstream patch

On Mon, 07 Dec 2020 09:00:30 +0100, Mart Lubbers wrote:

> After the update, vdirsyncer crashes during syncing with the following error:
> 
> > error: Unknown error occured for calendar/calendar: 'xml.etree.ElementTree.Element' object has no attribute 'getiterator'
> 
> I assume an older xml etree interface was used that broke when updating the
> python version to 3.9.
> 
> Related upstream issue: https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer/issues/854

This seems to be fixed upstream with this small change:

https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer/commit/7577fa21177442aacc2d86640ef28cebf1c4aaef

After applying the fix to /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/vdirsyncer/storage/dav.py
my vdirsyncer call works again.

Cheers,
gregor

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