A ValueError is more appropriate because there is no issue with the
ar archive itself. Also, the old codepath never worked because the
fn parameter was missing.
Since an ar archive can contain arbitary filenames (that is a
filename can be an invalid utf-8 encoding (for instance,
"foo\xff\xffbar")), the ar module provides a bytes only API. A
user can decode filenames as she wishes.
Note: if a "fn" parameter is passed to Ar.__init__ it should be a
bytes (a str is also ok, but then be aware that an ArError's file
attribute might be a str or a bytes).
The most visible change in python3 - removal of print statement and all
the crufty
print >> sys.stderr, foo,
The from __future__ import print_function makes it available in python
2.6
Some modules (httplib, StringIO, ...) were renamed in python3. This
patch try to import the proper symbols from python3 and then fallback to
python2 in a case ImportError will appear.
There is one exception, python 2.7 got the io module with StringIO, but
it allow unicode arguments only. Therefor the old module is poked before
new one.
* util/packagequery.py: it's used to query a RPM or DEB package. It also contains a
base class for all package types (PackageQuery())
* util/debquery.py: query a DEB package (name, version, release, provides, requires etc.)
- adapted util/rpmquery.py to use PackageQuery() as a base class
- minor changes in util/ar.py
