Public bug reported:
This would be no big deal if python3-apport just sat there until it was
used (which it would never be on my system, since I removed apport).
However, whenever python3-apport is installed, it unconditionally sets
itself as sys.excepthook in Python3.
The decision to have xserver-xorg depend on python3-apport basically
means that every user who runs an X server will get this exception hook
in Python whether they want it or not.
And having python3-apport as the Python exception hook is not exactly
harmless; it can still cause issues. My relatively minor but annoying
issue is that I see deprecation warnings every time I get an error
traceback, because python3-apport uses some deprecated code. I can
imagine worse issues should there be an error in python3-apport; it
could cause massive headaches and confusion for users who have no idea
what's causing it.
I'm not sure there is any point to have this dependency in the xserver-
xorg package; it doesn't seem like those scripts will ever be run unless
apport is installed and detects a crash, and apport already depends on
python3-apport. I made a nice equivs package to allow myself to
uninstall it, and as far as I can tell X and its applications still run
fine.
This is for Fossa, package version 1:7.7+19ubuntu.
** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1899971
Title:
Problematic dependency on python3-apport causes all Python invocations
to install apport hook
Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
This would be no big deal if python3-apport just sat there until it
was used (which it would never be on my system, since I removed
apport). However, whenever python3-apport is installed, it
unconditionally sets itself as sys.excepthook in Python3.
The decision to have xserver-xorg depend on python3-apport basically
means that every user who runs an X server will get this exception
hook in Python whether they want it or not.
And having python3-apport as the Python exception hook is not exactly
harmless; it can still cause issues. My relatively minor but annoying
issue is that I see deprecation warnings every time I get an error
traceback, because python3-apport uses some deprecated code. I can
imagine worse issues should there be an error in python3-apport; it
could cause massive headaches and confusion for users who have no idea
what's causing it.
I'm not sure there is any point to have this dependency in the
xserver-xorg package; it doesn't seem like those scripts will ever be
run unless apport is installed and detects a crash, and apport already
depends on python3-apport. I made a nice equivs package to allow
myself to uninstall it, and as far as I can tell X and its
applications still run fine.
This is for Fossa, package version 1:7.7+19ubuntu.
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