SyntaxWarning during installation

[Martin Lutz]

During installation with "apt-get install python-scitools" I get the following warnings:

ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/scitools/pyreport/main.py:268: SyntaxWarning: import * only allowed at module level
  def __call__(self, name, globals=None, locals=None, fromlist=None,
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/scitools/pyreport/main.py:285: SyntaxWarning: import * only allowed at module level
  def __call__(self, name, globals=None, locals=None,

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: python-scitools 0.9.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-25.39-generic 3.5.7.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar 11 21:24:40 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-21 (507 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: scitools
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-11-11 (120 days ago)

[Johannes Ring (johannr)]

This has been fixed in the upstream development version:

http://code.google.com/p/scitools/source/detail?r=302c9bbdf7bc38ac6da152e61eec81ed98cd99ab

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

I get the same warnings during installation of this package on Ubuntu Raring. However, based on the comment above, this should resolve itself once a new a version of scitools is released and packaged in Ubuntu.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Still reproducible with scitools 0.9.0-1 (same version) on Ubuntu Utopic.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

I'm setting this bug to "Incomplete" as it's not seen any activity for some time. If this is still an issue when using a maintained release of Ubuntu then please let us know otherwise this bug report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

I took a new look at this. When installing python-scitools on Ubuntu 16.04 I don't see any such warnings in the log. Doesn't seem to be specifically mentioned in the changelog for https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scitools/0.9.0-2 , but looks like this fixed it somehow. Thus marking it as Fixed now.