[systemd-devel] [PATCH] analyze: work around bug in Python 3 Cairo bindings

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Tue Jul 10 02:21:30 PDT 2012


On Tue, 10.07.12 04:16, Shawn Landen (shawnlandden at gmail.com) wrote:

> From: Shawn Landden <shawnlandden at gmail.com>
> 
> The python3 version of the Cairo bindings doesn't know how to write
> to sys.stdout/sys.stderr, which changed from from accepting str in
> python 2, to accepting a byte stream in python 3.
> 
> Work around this by using /dev/stdout.
> 
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50989

Humm, not sure I like this patch so much. We try not to do work-arounds
in systemd. Since cairo needs to be updated anyway I think we should be
patient and wait until this problem is fixed where it needs to be fixed.

Lennart

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