[ATTN MAINTAINER] mercurial with python3

[Marco Atzeri]

ping

On 02.01.2021 09:54, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> Hi Jari,
> can you provide a test version that works with python3.8 ?
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> $ hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code GM
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/bin/hg", line 43, in <module>
>      dispatch.run()
>    File "/usr/lib/python3.8/importlib/util.py", line 245, in 
> __getattribute__
>      self.__spec__.loader.exec_module(self)
>    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 783, in exec_module
>    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in 
> _call_with_frames_removed
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 
> 22, in <module>
> ...
>      import http.cookiejar as cookielib
>    File "/usr/lib/python3.8/importlib/util.py", line 245, in 
> __getattribute__
>      self.__spec__.loader.exec_module(self)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/http/__init__.py", line 7, in 
> <module>
>      raise ImportError('This package should not be accessible on Python 
> 3. '
> ImportError: This package should not be accessible on Python 3. Either 
> you are trying to run from the python-future src folder or your 
> installation of python-future is corrupted.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> 
> the usage of
> 
> $ alternatives --config python
> 
> to set for python2.7 works as expected for the time being.
> 
> Regards
> Marco