Control: tag -1 unreproducible On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 01:44:58AM +0200, Christof Schulze wrote: > Running vdirsyncer sync causes the above error message about unmatched > ')'. This renders 0.4.4 - the version in stable - unusable. The root cause is > that > python-click-threading 0.4.4, which vdirsyncer is depending on, > introduced an incompatibility with python-click. > More info on the problem can be found in [2] and [3]. > > The version in testing (0.18.0-6) is working fine as it depends on a > python-click-version that does not have the problem. So installing the > version from testing including its dependencies works. > > Would you please upgrade vdirsyncer in stable to the current version in > testing to make the program work again for everyone on stable?
I know this was a long time ago, but I've been going through some Python team bugs to see if I can do anything with them, and came across this; it interested me because I've been using vdirsyncer since 2017, and that definitely involved a period when I was using it on bullseye and I don't think I ever ran across this bug. I just tried setting up a clean bullseye container, installing vdirsyncer, copying over my configuration, and running "vdirsyncer discover contacts && vdirsyncer sync". Everything worked perfectly. > [1] https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer/pull/891 > [2] https://github.com/click-contrib/click-threading/pull/5 > [3] https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer/issues/887 If we were to update anything here in bullseye, it would make more sense to just cherry-pick the fix to click-threading; the only thing a new vdirsyncer would add would be a tighter dependency on click-threading, but for Debian stable release purposes we might as well just issue the click-threading update and have people upgrade to it. However, [2] and [3] both make it clear that the problem with the combination of click and click-threading was introduced in click 8.0.0 and does not exist with click 7.1.2. bullseye has click 7.1.2, and indeed the package versions in your bug show that as well: > Versions of packages vdirsyncer depends on: > ii init-system-helpers 1.60 > ii python3 3.9.2-3 > ii python3-atomicwrites 1.4.0-2 > ii python3-click 7.1.2-1 > ii python3-click-log 0.2.1-2 > ii python3-click-threading 0.4.4-2 > ii python3-requests 2.25.1+dfsg-2 > ii python3-requests-toolbelt 0.9.1-1 ... so I am quite suspicious that there may be some relevant information that's not in the bug report. You didn't include a traceback, which might have made it clearer; but is it possible that you have a locally installed version of click >= 8.0.0 from PyPI, perhaps due to running "pip install" outside a virtual environment? That would explain this happening to you. Thanks, -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
