Hi Neil,
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 09:29:08AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> affects 858835 python-daemon
> thanks
>
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 09:21:27 +1100
> Ben Finney <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On 27-Mar-2017, Neil Williams wrote:
> >
> > > root@sylvester:/# apt-get -t jessie-backports install
> > > lava-coordinator […]
> > > Get:14 http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/debian/ jessie-backports/main
> > > python-lockfile all 1:0.12.2-2~bpo8+1 [17.3 kB] Get:15
> > > http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/debian/ jessie/main python-daemon all
> > > 1.5.5-1 [19.9 kB] Get:16 http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/debian/
> > > jessie-backports/main lava-coordinator all 0.1.6-2~bpo8+1 [13.7 kB]
> > > […]
> >
> > There's the problem. ‘python-daemon’ version 1.5.5 is not compatible
> > with ‘python-lockfile’ later than version 0.8, because of the surprise
> > lockfile API change.
> >
> > I don't know who's maintaining the backports for those packages;
>
> From the PTS, Andreas backported python-lockfile (CC'd) but there is no
> backport of python-daemon.
>
> > if
> > you want to install a later version of either, you'll need compatible
> > versions.
> >
> > The versions from ‘unstable’ declare dependencies correctly to avoid
> > that problem.
>
> Andreas: the backport of python-lockfile is actively harmful without a
> matching backport of python-daemon. Either python-lockfile needs to be
> removed from jessie-backports or python-daemon must also be available
> from jessie-backports *and* python-daemon needs to enforce that the
> backport of python-lockfile is installed with the backport of
> python-daemon.
I volunteer to backport python-daemon.
Sorry for the trouble
Andreas.
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