API breakage in 'python-lockfile' version 0.9

[hlef]

Hi,

I'm the debian maintainer of the spambayes package, and I received the following bug report (available online here).

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Original bug report

Dear Maintainer,

The ‘python-lockfile’ package in Debian has released in Debian Sid an upstream version with an incompatible API to previous Debian releases.

This change was described in 2014-11, for example here. This bug report is part of a mass bug report announced 2015-06-05 here.

Packages using the API in ‘lockfile’ prior to version 0.9 will fail with the current ‘python-lockfile’ in Debian Sid.

Please do the following to resolve this bug:

• Work with your package's upstream to have the code support ‘lockfile’'s current API, if it doesn't already. Encourage them to release a new version with that support.
• Upload a new release of this package with a versioned dependency on “python-lockfile (>= 0.9)”.

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A patch have been provided and seems to work. It would be nice to see it integrated in the next release.

Thanks for providing spambayes !