Here's a "heads up" for those of you who are running Debian under Hercules.
I recently did an "apt-get upgrade" for my stretch (testing) system under
Hercules, and it failed configuration with this error:
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Setting up python3-minimal (3.4.3-4) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/py3compile", line 34, in <module>
from debpython.version import SUPPORTED, debsorted, vrepr, \
File "/usr/share/python3/debpython/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
from datetime import datetime
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/datetime.py", line 633, in <module>
microseconds=999999)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/datetime.py", line 408, in __new__
assert abs(microseconds) < 3.1e6
AssertionError
dpkg: error processing package python3-minimal (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
python3-minimal
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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I spent the weekend trying to resolve this. The bottom line: there is a
bug in Hercules itself. The version of Hercules currently packaged for
Debian, 3.07, has a bug in the emulation of the s390x hardware which
causes configuration of the above package to fail. I downloaded Hercules
3.11 directly from upstream, compiled it from source, and installed it.
The above error disappears under Hercules 3.11. The bottom line:
We really need a new hercules package for Debian!
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.''`. Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com>
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