Python3 Breakage Fixed
Scott Kitterman
ubuntu at kitterman.com
Fri Jul 13 13:55:52 UTC 2012
Yesterday was not a good one for the Python 3 stack. I sync'ed in some
improvements from Debian earlier in the week and it fairly quickly became
clear that we're using Python 3 a lot in Quantal. The last real bug from
this, lp:1024016 was fixed about 10 hours ago and it looks like new
dupes/reports have ~stopped.
The reason this hit us in Ubuntu is that Debian has not had the same push for
Python 3 use in Wheezy (and uses Python much less than Ubuntu in any case).
The root cause from a development perspective was a combination of buggy code
and buggy tests that didn't reveal the errors. Having it hit during the week
when the primary dh_python3 author is at Debconf didn't help either.
Scott K
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