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Date:      Sun, 3 Nov 2013 16:07:11 +0100
From:      Kurt Jaeger <pi@opsec.eu>
To:        Jase Thew <jase@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, Kurt Jaeger <fbsd-ports@opsec.eu>, William Grzybowski <wg@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r332550 - in head/sysutils/duplicity: . files
Message-ID:  <20131103150711.GF64348@home.opsec.eu>
In-Reply-To: <527660F5.4040901@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201311022300.rA2N0snK083676@svn.freebsd.org> <527660F5.4040901@FreeBSD.org>

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Hi!

> Duplicity itself is not fully Python 3 compatible [1] (there's multiple
> instances of "print" as command and all the unicode vs bytes string
> handling needs resolving to allow woeking unicode filename support), so
> simply patching setup.py to prevent a syntax error under Python 3 seems
> somewhat bogus.

I'm aware of that issue, I just wanted to try to start
going python 3. I did not find the time to go further.

> There has been work upstream [2] with regards to fully supporting Python
> 3 with Duplicity, but this is taking place in a developer branch [3] and
> work appears to have stalled.
> 
> Therefore, I think it would be wise to revert this commit and I'll
> modify the Makefile to prevent usage with > py27.

The change does not really hurt, it just fails later in the install
process 8-}

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pi@opsec.eu            +49 171 3101372                         7 years to go !



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