[Pythondialog-users] UnableToRetrieveBackendVersion (python2-pythondialog, Debian squeeze)

[Jakub W. <jak...@gm...>]

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While working on the Let's Encrypt [1] client we have hit the
following python2-pythondialog bug [2] on Debian squeeze (tested on
digitalocean droplet):

  (venv)root@le-squeeze:/tmp# pip install python2-pythondialog
  Downloading/unpacking python2-pythondialog
  Downloading python2-pythondialog-3.0.1.tar.bz2 (76Kb): 76Kb downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package python2-pythondialog
  No .git directory, using the 'ChangeLog' file as is.
  Installing collected packages: python2-pythondialog
  Running setup.py install for python2-pythondialog
  No .git directory, using the 'ChangeLog' file as is.
  Successfully installed python2-pythondialog
  Cleaning up...
  (venv)root@le-squeeze:/tmp# python -c 'import dialog; dialog.Dialog()'
  Version: 1.1-20100428
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/tmp/venv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dialog.py", line 1366, in __init__
  self.backend_version())
  File "/tmp/venv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dialog.py", line 2028, in backend_version
  "{1!r}".format(self._dialog_prg, output))
  dialog.UnableToRetrieveBackendVersion

Please note that the version string is printed on the terminal. I have
checked (using pdb) that "output" on line 2028 is set to empty string:
''. More debug output:

  (venv)root@le-squeeze:/tmp# dialog --print-version 2>/dev/null
  Version: 1.1-20100428

We don't have this problem on neither Debian wheezy nor Ubuntu 14.04
nor Ubuntu 14.10.

BTW I wanted to use sourceforge bug tracker [3] to report this
problem, but it says: "To create a new ticket, you must be authorized
by the project admin.".


[1] https://letsencrypt.org
[2] https://github.com/letsencrypt/lets-encrypt-preview/issues/280
[3] http://sourceforge.net/p/pythondialog/bugs/

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Your's virtually,
Jakub Warmuz
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