trash-empty and trash-list segfault

[Jan Claeys]

When I run trash-empty and trash-list (which are Python scripts) I get a segfault. This used to work in Ubuntu 16.04

[John Wang (johnwang)]

This is due to incompatibility with Python 3, which Ubuntu now uses system-wide. Trash-cli was just updated upstream to work with Python 3 and it supposedly fixes the segfaulting, so the latest release needs to be packaged for Ubuntu.

Upstream bug:
https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli/issues/81

Latest upstream tarball release (0.17.1.14 at time of writing) is here:
https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli/releases

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[John Wang (johnwang)]

However, the relevant Debian bug says the segfaulting is fixed after upgrading Python from version 2.7.12 (Ubuntu 16.10 uses the same version for python2.7 currently) to version 2.7.13:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=843612

[Andrea Francia (andrea-francia)]

Hi, I'am the trash-cli upstream author and maintainer.

In upstream we worked on two different issues:

Segmentation fault bug: https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli/issues/52
Python 3 compatibility: https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli/issues/81

The segmentation fault bug was reported on upgrading python to 2.7.10 and
has been solved with the upstream release 0.16.12.26.

The Python 3 compatibility was solved with the 0.17.1.12 upstream release.

The current upstream release 0.17.1.14 includes solution for both these
issues and other bug fixes.

Hope this helps

Andrea Francia

[John Wang (johnwang)]

@andrea-francia Thanks for clearing that up.

I've installed the 0.17.1.14 tarball from upstream and can confirm that the segfaults no longer occur when invoking the various trash-cli commands.