Comment 23 for bug 1873368

@William,

The fix here does break python < 3.5 (as advertised in the debian/patches/ patch). It is mostly trivial to make this change in a backwards compatible way, so we should probably do that.

I wonder what the official policy is on breaking this "client"s interaction with an ubuntu release version that is now under ESM. I didn't see anything that obviously covered this in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates .