[Barry Warsaw, 2010-05-28] > On May 18, 2010, at 11:42 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote: > >Which tests can fail on newer Python versions? I though newer Pythons > >are backward compatible, except Py3k. > > They are *mostly* compatible, but they cannot be fully 100% backward > compatible. Modules and features go through a well defined deprecation cycle, > __future__ imports get turned on by default, etc, etc. Why just today we had > a discussion in #debian-python about string exceptions(!). Those have been > deprecated for at least 3.5 years and yet there's still (what Piotr, 100+?) > packages in Debian that still use them.
Jakub Wilk found the problem and prepared a list of packages affected: http://people.debian.org/~jwilk/tmp/string-exceptions.ddlist anyone volunteers to check them and report bugs? (string exceptions are not allowed in Python >= 2.6) -- Piotr Ożarowski Debian GNU/Linux Developer www.ozarowski.pl www.griffith.cc www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7645 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100528113357.gi31...@piotro.eu
