Hello Manolo, Manolo Díaz [2017-07-16 18:36 +0200]: > > So calibre should clean up *.pyc files (probably from ancient > > installations) in /usr/lib/calibre. > > Cheers, > > -- Guido > > It would help, but I think it isn't enough. Given the following > sequence calibre would have failed to start. > > - upgrade or reinstall calibre (all *.pyc are cleaned up) > - run calibre as root (they are created again) > - upgrade python-dateutil.
I don't think that there's much that a Python application package can do about it. Cleaning up the pyc files on package upgrades should alleviate this (I'll add that to the packaging), but I figure the muuuuch better solution here is "don't run calibre as root". Martin
