[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#585192: cpushare: Python string exceptions no more allowed in Python 2.6

[Jakub Wilk]

* Sandro Tosi <morph at ravel.debian.org>, 2010-06-09, 22:19:
>One of the changes brought by Python 2.6 is the removal of string
>exceptions, so they won't work in Python 2.6 (just a side note: they
>were also buggy before, since they were not guaranteed to work
>reliable even in <2.6); as an example:
>
>$ python2.5 -c "raise 'eggs'"
>-c:1: DeprecationWarning: raising a string exception is deprecated
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>eggs
>
>$ python2.6 -c "raise 'eggs'"
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>TypeError: exceptions must be old-style classes or derived from BaseException, not str
>
>Since 2.6 is the planned default version for the upcoming new Debian
>stable release, there are chances your package may be affected by this
>change.
>
[...]
>
>Jakub Wilk made the discovery of the problem and kindly prepared a
>list [1] of all identified packages (downloaded on 2010-06-09) along
>with files & lines that triggered the pattern search.
>
>[1] http://people.debian.org/~morph/strexp/string-exceptions.lintian

Besides the stuff listed here, i.e. cpushare/cpushare/seccomp.py:104, 
there are several less obvious (and thus not automatically detected) 
instances like:

raise ERROR, <something>
raise CHECKERROR, <something>


-- 
Jakub Wilk
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