Bug 288974 – Prefix Portage (sys-apps/portage-2.2.00.14555) needs deps adjusted for python

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo/Alt

[Description calculuspenguin 2009-10-14 00:41:41 UTC]

sys-apps/portage-2.2.00.14555 currently has python_dep=">=dev-lang/python-2.5 <dev-lang/python-3.0" as its python dependencies.  This is incorrect as when "* Byte compiling python modules for python-2.5 .. ..." results in many "SyntaxError: invalid syntax" messages.

Examples:
    except UninstallFailure as e:
                             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

    myfd = os.open(lockfilename, os.O_CREAT|os.O_RDWR, 0o660)
                                                           ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

The changelogs from portage svn are:
r14292 - Update syntax of numbers for compatibility with Python 3.
r14289 - Update syntax of 'except' statements for compatibility with Python 3.

sys-apps/portage-2.2.00.14555 deps should be changed to python-2.6 (or some other version that is compatible with Python 3).

[Comment 1 Fabian Groffen 2009-10-14 06:10:09 UTC]

correct, the dependency must be bumped to python-2.6

[Comment 2 Fabian Groffen 2009-10-15 18:10:11 UTC]

thanks, I just committed this dependency change.