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FS#35186 - [ponysay] PLEASE ENTER SUMMARY

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Jack O'Connor (oconnor663) - Friday, 10 May 2013, 21:26 GMT
Last edited by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Sunday, 12 May 2013, 08:12 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: /usr/bin/ponysay targets "python" instead of "python3", crashes if the user points "python" to Python 2.x

Steps to reproduce:
- Relink "/usr/bin/python" to "/usr/bin/python2"
- Install ponysay
- Run it. It crashes on a print statement, because it's running under Python 2.

For compatibility with a lot of code at work, I keep "python" pointing to Python 2 with a simlink in my ~/bin. To run ponysay, I have to explicitly call "python3 /usr/bin/ponysay", or else it crashes. The source seems to explicitly specify python3, and I if I run the PKGBUILD on my own box and install ponysay from that package, it runs fine. Could it be a build configuration issue with the community package that's causing it to point to "python" instead of "python3"? Thanks for your help.
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Closed by  Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Sunday, 12 May 2013, 08:12 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  Won't fix. This is an upstream problem or elsewise a configuration problem on your own system. We obviously do not support relinking system packages like python.

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