#1122920 apt-xapian-index: Receive error from cron.weekly run

Package:
apt-xapian-index
Source:
apt-xapian-index
Submitter:
Colin Vernon
Date:
2025-12-21 16:25:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1122920#5
Date:
2025-12-14 16:42:21 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

After I upgraded to trixie, I started getting these emails:

/etc/cron.weekly/apt-xapian-index:
Trackback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index", line 61, in <module>
    import axi.indexer
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/axi/indexer.py", line 27, in <module>
    import imp
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'imp'
run-parts: /etc/cron.weekly/apt-xapian-index exited with return code 1
#1122920#10
Date:
2025-12-15 08:58:19 UTC
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[Colin Vernon 2025-12-14]

I assume a dependency on python3-zombie-imp providing imp.py is missing.

I got a different message from my cron.weekly yesterday:

/etc/cron.weekly/apt-xapian-index:
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/axi/__init__.py:53: SyntaxWarning: invalid
escape sequence '\s'
  re_empty = re.compile("^\s*(?:#.*)?$")
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/axi/__init__.py:54: SyntaxWarning: invalid
escape sequence '\S'
  re_value = re.compile("^(\S+)\s+(\d+)(?:\s*#\s*(.+))?$")

I assume this is some version skew.
#1122920#15
Date:
2025-12-21 15:26:23 UTC
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It also needs python3-six:

richard@sfere:~$ /usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index", line 61, in <module>
     import axi.indexer
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/axi/indexer.py", line 39, in
<module>
     from six.moves.urllib_parse import unquote
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'six'

ttfn/rjk
#1122920#20
Date:
2025-12-21 16:23:42 UTC
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six is really EOL, so this wants a source patch.

Chris