Control: reassign -1 python Control: severity -1 important On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 10:29:27 +0000, Matthew Woodcraft wrote:
> Debian has in the past contained Python packages which have side-effects > when imported which are worse than just crashing the calling process > (for example, I've had pydoc crash my window manager). > > Arguably all such cases are bugs in those packages, but it seems likely > that such bugs will appear again. And of course the user might have > local Python packages which do dangerous things when imported. > > So I think pydoc is just wrong to believe it can safely call > pkgutil.walk_packages() with no explicit path. > > (This behaviour can be particularly entertaining when combined with > zsh's tab-completion for 'python -m', which currently calls pydoc in a > similar way [#691638].) > This is clearly not a bzr-gtk bug, and critical seems over the top, so downgrading and moving to python, which ships pydoc. Cheers, Julien
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