#1123634 auto-editor: attempts and fails to download a binary from github

#1123634#5
Date:
2025-12-19 01:34:18 UTC
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% auto-editor
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/auto-editor", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
             ~~~~^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/auto_editor/__main__.py", line 77, in main
    binary_path = download_binary()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/auto_editor/__main__.py", line 46, in download_binary
    bin_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/pathlib/_local.py", line 724, in mkdir
    os.mkdir(self, mode)
    ~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/auto_editor/bin'

#1123634#10
Date:
2025-12-28 17:43:17 UTC
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Indeed, that's true, and it's getting worse with upstream switching to
nim/nimble as build system downloading half the internet. I'm giving up
on this, consider it orphaned.

#1123634#15
Date:
2026-05-18 10:50:54 UTC
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Dear submitter,

as the package auto-editor has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1136645

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

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