-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/07/07 04:57, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-08-06 20:05:44 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >> Can you describe the breakage? I've found that packages that rely on >> python for a GUI break (GUI freezes), I've always blamed it on the GUI. >> Base python itself I've never had break. > > Here are some of them I've recorded: > > In May (this one was under Mac OS X), the python upgrade > (2.4.3 -> 2.4.4) broken Mercurial: > ImportError: No module named _locale > > In April, the upgrade of python2.4-minimal failed during configuration > (and apt-get install -f didn't solve the problem). > > In June 2006, fail2ban dies with "unknown locale" error (the > problem occurred with python2.3 and later versions, but not > with python2.2). The fix was the following: > > 0.7. branch of fail2ban within testing/unstable has substantially > different handling of dates, and doesn't rely on python's locale > anymore which remains to be prone to this bug (see #369689 reassigned > from fail2ban long ago). > > In February 2006, messages forwarded by Forte Agent got corrupted > by getmail. The bug has never been identified (the author of getmail > couldn't reproduce it with my testcase), but it is thought to come > from some python version.
Two responses: 1. That's not many breakages. (And one of them is OSX!!!) 2. I see application bugs. GvR announces when they're making changes that will break things. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGuFQJS9HxQb37XmcRAjtjAJ4nFGGq0NkfZN+yu3LXK9BmVtFxqgCg0JKF EQ3LHVYmw9Y66EuR1IFzRD4= =J4zX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
