Hi Eric,

Eric Evans <eev...@debian.org> (2013-08-12):
> In python-coherence, coherence.upnp.core.utils.HeaderAwareHTTPClientFactory
> (coherence/upnp/core/utils.py) sub-classes twisted.web.client.HTTPDownloader
> (from package python-twisted-web), and in the process (uselessly )overrides
> the __init__ method and makes use of a "private" attribute.  As a result, it
> broke when that attribute was dropped in a major release of Twisted.
> 
> I think this bug is grave.  Anything that uses utils.getPage is affected,
> which includes the internal control point; The default config and all of
> the examples fail predictably.
> 
> It was reported in 664027[1] in March of 2012, but went unfixed and was
> released as part of wheezy, (the bug priority was "important").
> 
> The attached patch came from the corresponding upstream bug report[2], and
> has been well tested by myself and others (see replies to [1] and [2]).
> 
> I just adopted coherence and have uploaded the fix to unstable, is there any
> chance a fix could make its way to stable-proposed-updates as well?

it looks reasonable to me; please post a debdiff with that patch applied
on top of 0.6.6.2-6, versioned as 0.6.6.2-6+deb7u1 (I don't mind updated
Maintainer/Uploaders in the process), targeting 'wheezy' for a last review.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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