Comment 2 for bug 1220921

On Sep 04, 2013, at 09:26 PM, Julian Taylor wrote:

>To resolve the issue we have two options:
>
>patch 1.5.7 and 2.0.0, easy but programs that check for version numbers to
>avoid the bug will not accept the package. This is the case e.g. with
>matplotlib 1.3, I have filed a patch which was accepted but there might be
>more cases out there.
>
>update pyparsing to 2.0.1 which is a bit more involved thus the FFe request.
>pyparsing will again provide python-pyparsing and python3-pyparsing
>python3-pyparsing(binary) from python3-pyparsing(source) will be obsoleted by
>pyparsing 2.0.1 so no upgrade issues should occur, once its published
>python3-pyparsing (source) can be removed. I have contacted the debian
>maintainer about this but he is *very* hard to get a hold of, so I want to do
>it in ubuntu directly rather soon.

I'm not familiar with the specifics, but from your description, I agree this
sounds like the best course of action.