[Python-modules-team] Bug#573417: forgetSQL raises string exceptions in three places (not supported in python 2.6)

[Morten Werner Forsbring]

Package: forgetsql
Version: 0.5.1-10
Severity: normal
Tags: patch upstream
Owner: Morten Werner Forsbring <werner at debian.org>


Hi,

this was sent to the nav-users at uninett.no mailinglist. It should be
fixed for the package in Debian as well.


- Werner

Morten Brekkevold <morten.brekkevold at uninett.no> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> forgetSQL is an unmaintained piece of shi^H^Hoftware that NAV versions
> up to 3.5 depend on.  While we have removed this dependency from the
> coming NAV 3.6, some will experience warnings when running NAV under
> Python 2.5, and outright failures on Python 2.6, due to problems with
> the forgetSQL module.
>
> The forgetSQL module raises string exceptions in three places, and
> these are deprecated in Python 2.5, and not supported in 2.6.  You may
> see error messages such as these:
>
>  /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/forgetSQL.py:212: DeprecationWarning: raising a string exception is deprecated
>    raise "NotFound"
>
> or
>
>  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/forgetSQL.py", line 212, in __new__
>    raise "NotFound"
>
>  TypeError: exceptions must be classes or instances, not str
>
>
> I'm attaching a quick forgetSQL patch I've written to overcome these
> problems until NAV 3.6 has reached a stable release.

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