The PyDS RSS aggregator fails on my system, because the DownloadTool.py portion of the program doesn't work on my environment. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Download PyDS, install, try to add an RSS file to the aggregator. Actual Results: On the Aggregator page, PyDS will say "there is an error in the feed." Expected Results: The feed should have been parsed and shown in the aggregator. The following patch seems to fix the problem. I've been in communication with the upstream author, and he notes that PyDS is only officially "supported" on Python 2.2, though I and others are doing reasonably well on 2.3. Note I'm running on ~x86, with an up-to-date python 2.3.3, and that's about the only thing that could affect this bug. I volunteer to maintain this ebuild, but I do not know how to get the necessary permissions, etc. (If submitting bugs is enough, that'll do.) (I assume the "severity" refers to the severity of the bug on the relevant package, not Gentoo as a whole.)
Created attachment 25411 [details, diff] Fix this bug on my computer (The file names in the patch will need to be modified, of course.)
thanks for your patch and report. the patch has been added to 0.6.5 and also 0.7.0 has been added to portage as well.
Actually, the patch was for 0.7.0, though it is necessary for 0.6.5 as well and if it worked should be left in. The patch is specific to Gentoo because PyDS is only, strictly speaking, supported by the upstream author on Python 2.2. I'm doing fine with other then the patched problem, but the upstream author shouldn't accept it until they officially move to Python 2.3.
thanks for letting us know, i guess i'll apply the patch to 0.7.0 as well.
