screen-resolution-extra

[Kaj Munsterhjelm - BluesKaj]

Setting up screen-resolution-extra (0.16) ...
  File "/usr/share/screen-resolution-extra/nvidia-prime.py", line 64
    except dbus.exceptions.DBusException,e:
                                        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

dpkg: error processing screen-resolution-extra (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 screen-resolution-extra
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: screen-resolution-extra 0.16 [modified: usr/share/screen-resolution-extra/nvidia-prime.py]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-2.5-generic 3.12.0
Uname: Linux 3.12.0-2-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12.6-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Nov 9 07:46:56 2013
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: screen-resolution-extra
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

High: Uninstallable package
Triaged: This looks like a python3 ism - the syntax for except changed to be
   except typename as var
rather than
   except typename, var

the change happened mid 2.x but they finally banned the old one in Python 3.something.