Devuan bug report logs - #528
python3-reportbug: fails to install due to syntax error

Packages: version:, python3-reportbug, 7.8.0+devuan1, grave, severity:; Maintainer for version: is (unknown); Maintainer for python3-reportbug is Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>; Source for python3-reportbug is src:reportbug. Maintainer for 7.8.0+devuan1 is (unknown); Maintainer for grave is (unknown); Maintainer for severity: is (unknown);

Reported by: "Gerard H. Pille" <ghpille@hotmail.com>

Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 23:18:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: invalid, moreinfo

Done: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

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Subject: Re: bug#528: python3-reportbug: fails to install due to syntax error
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On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 08:05:34PM +0100, Gerard H. Pille wrote:
> # dpkg -S $(which python)
> python-minimal: /usr/bin/python
> 
> # python3 -V
> Python 3.8.6
> 
> # python2 -V
> Python 2.7.18
> 
> # python -V
> Python 2.7.18
> 
> 

> Currently, an "apt-get reinstall python3-reportbug" succeeds.

Good!

> So, somewhere in the upgrade from ascii to chimaera, python3-reportbug was
> installed while python2 was still used.  Caused by skipping Beowulf?

Ah, yes. That is definitely *not* supported. You are not supposed to miss out a
release[1] for exactly this sort of reason. Python versions and packaging are
quite fragile and you can end up with mismatches. For example, python-minimal
doesn't exist in chimaera at all.

I can't reproduce your behaviour on a correctly installed ceres or chimaera
system, so I am going to tag it invalid an close.

Please feel free to reopen if you really think there is a reportbug issue.

Thanks

Mark

[1]  https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/542459/upgrade-debian-jessie-8-to-buster-10-possible-or-need-to-go-sequential-in-ve


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