SyntaxWarning with obviously buggy code

[Zygmunt Krynicki]

Updating dstat to version 0.7.4-6

I see this:

/usr/share/dstat/dstat_mysql_keys.py:41: SyntaxWarning: 'str' object is not callable; perhaps you missed a comma?
  if op.debug > 1: print('%s: exception' (self.filename, e))
/usr/share/dstat/dstat_squid.py:48: SyntaxWarning: 'str' object is not callable; perhaps you missed a comma?
  if op.debug > 1: print('%s: exception' (self.filename, e))

Without even looking deeper that's an obviously missing comma, after "exception'", on both lines.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Confirmed. I get the same warnings when installing dstat 0.7.4-6 on Ubuntu Focal.

[Pranshu J (pmj642)]

I would like to send a pull request of the fix. How can I do that?

[Tom Reynolds (tomreyn)]

https://packaging.ubuntu.com/html/fixing-a-bug.html probably still applies.

However, expanding the version numbers for recent releases on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dstat shows, in "Publishing details", shows:
"Copied from debian sid in Primary Archive for Debian GNU/Linux."

So this is a direct copy from Debian - in such cases it's good to check whether this very bug has already been fixed in Debian, in which case another sync to Ubuntu may be in order. Or whether you can contribute the fix to Debian, who have kindly provided the package, then have Ubuntu sync the updated package again. See the right-hand column on https://packages.debian.org/sid/dstat for a link to the Debian bug tracker and additional info on the package state in Debian.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SyncRequestProcess