[Pkg-dns-devel] Bug#835997: python-ldns broken: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'LDNS_RR_CLASS_IN'

[Christoph Egger]

Package: python-ldns
Version: 1.6.17-9
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

  Seems the python-ldns package is broken / misses some names. This
has worked in the past.

  Christoph

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In [1]: import ldns
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-fca65cdf53b7> in <module>()
----> 1 import ldns

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ldns.py in <module>()
   5664 _ldns.LDNS_RESOLV_RTT_MIN_swigconstant(_ldns)
   5665 LDNS_RESOLV_RTT_MIN = _ldns.LDNS_RESOLV_RTT_MIN
-> 5666 class ldns_resolver(_object):
   5667     """
   5668     LDNS resolver object.

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ldns.py in ldns_resolver()
   5932     # High level functions
   5933
-> 5934     def get_addr_by_name(self, name, aclass = _ldns.LDNS_RR_CLASS_IN, flags = _ldns.LDNS_RD):
   5935         """
   5936            Ask the resolver about name and return all address records.

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'LDNS_RR_CLASS_IN'

In [2]:
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Versions of packages python-ldns depends on:
ii  libc6         2.23-5
ii  libldns1      1.6.17-9
ii  libpython2.7  2.7.12-2
ii  python        2.7.11-2
pn  python:any    <none>

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