[DSE-Dev] Bug#899182: policycoreutils-dev: sepolicy does not work with installed python version

[Sebastian Hamann]

Package: policycoreutils-dev
Version: 2.6-3
Severity: important
Tags: patch upstream

Dear Maintainer,

running sepolgen may cause an exception, since it uses types that were
apparently removed from python 3.
For me, sepolgen only crashed when I had binutils installed, so this
does not render it completely useless.
It may further depend on the type of policy being generated and the
binary being analysed. Other uses of sepolicy may or may not be
affected. I simply did not check a lot of the background for this bug.

A patch is available:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/selinux/msg23967.html
The other patches in this thread seem sensible, too, but I did not have
issues without them. All of them are accepted upstream.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)