Bug 610414 – app-portage/repoman-2.3.1: with python3.6, running repoman on dev-db/sqlite triggers DeprecationWarning: invalid escape sequence '\['

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Zac Medico 2017-02-21 22:09:48 UTC]

This warning is emitted from the unicode_escape codec, triggered by a sed expression in the ebuilds containing "\[":

repoman/modules/scan/ebuild/checks.py:930: DeprecationWarning: invalid escape sequence '\['

I think we can replace the unicode_escape usage with a regular expression that matches an odd number of trailing backslashes.

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2017-02-21 23:55:44 UTC]

This seems to work:

def has_line_continuation(line):
    m = re.search(r'(\\)*$', line)
    return False if m is None else operator.sub(*m.span()) % 2 == 1

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2017-02-22 00:40:35 UTC]

Patch posted for review:

https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage-dev/message/76e505fb48f3b764c6335e145cc8af66
https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/123

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2017-02-22 09:07:54 UTC]

This is in the master branch:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=3e82d2e09f124f3b77d1b913c945b93341ee4053

[Comment 4 Brian Dolbec (RETIRED) 2017-03-16 00:09:18 UTC]

Released in repoman-2.3.2