[Spambayes] SpamBayes 1.1a6 not working since upgrade Debian Lenny -> Squeeze (with Python 2.6.6)

[Dale Schroeder]

I don't use procmail, so my error messages were different, but I was not 
able to make the latest Debian 2.6.* work with 1.1a6.  When I was using 
Squeeze, I had to run against python 2.5 to make 1.1a6 work.

That trick no longer works in Wheezy, but I have had success with Skip's 
latest 1.1b1 found at 
http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=display&name=spambayes 
<http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=display&name=spambayes> testing 
against python 2.5, 2.6, and 2.7.

The 1st thread is the Squeeze thread and the 2nd is the Wheezy thread.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/spambayes/2011-January/022942.html
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/spambayes/2011-May/023004.html

Dale


On 06/15/2011 10:49 AM, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
> A couple of days ago I upgraded my server from Debian Lenny to Debian
> Squeeze. Since then I'm seeing these lines in my procmail.log:
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/bin/sb_filter.py", line 4, in<module>
>      import pkg_resources
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2671, in
> <module>
>      working_set.require(__requires__)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 654, in
> require
>      needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 552, in
> resolve
>      raise DistributionNotFound(req)
> pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: spambayes==1.1a6
> procmail: Program failure (1) of "/usr/bin/sb_filter.py"
> procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded
>
>
> My best guess is that the Debian upgrade included an upgrade of Python,
> and that this is related to the messages that I'm seeing. This is my
> current version of Python:
>
>
> $ python --version
> Python 2.6.6
>
>
> According to the 1.0.4 release notes, the 1.1 version is built with Python
> 2.4.
> According to the 1.1a6 release notes, Python>= 2.4 is required. (your
> work, Skip)
>
>
>
> My questions are:
> * is SpamBayes 1.1a6 compatible with Python 2.6.6?
> * if yes: what is my next course of action to make it work again?
> * if no: how can I help? I have never written anything in Python but how
> hard can it be?
>
>
>