Python3 Breakage Fixed

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jul 13, 2012, at 09:55 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote:

>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.

Thanks so much for fixing this Scott.  I'm glad that our aggressiveness is
helping Wheezy too.  :)

While the package itself could perhaps use some additional unittests, what do
you think could have helped us in Ubuntu to catch this earlier?

Cheers,
-Barry