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software-properties package

  1. Bug #1921515
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Comment 2 for bug 1921515

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Marcel Waldvogel (marcel.waldvogel) wrote :

For me, this happened when installing `pypy3` on hirsute.

running pypy3 rtupdate hooks for 7.3
Failed to byte-compile /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/extendedsourceslist.py: File "/
usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/extendedsourceslist.py", line 436
    def __init__(self, sourceslist=None, /, files=None):
                                         ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax (expected ')')

The problem seems to be that `python3-software-properties` expects Python>=3.8 (the `/` syntax only became available then, see https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0570/). However, pypy3 as packaged with hirsute (7.3.5) only supports Python 3.7. Upgrading to pypy 7.3.6 (https://www.pypy.org/posts/2021/10/pypy-v736-release.html), announced as supporting Python 3.8, probably would solve this problem.