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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