Hi there.

It seem that exaile includes an embedded convenience copy of a python
module (simplejson) that is already in the archive. The Debian Policy
explicitly discourages this. [0]

Furthermore, the package can be made smaller (smaller downloads, smaller
installations---important for live CDs) and more secure without this
embedded copy.

Please, feel free to tweak the severity of this bug. BTW, thanks for this
very welcome upload: at least we got a version of exaile that is not
bit-rotting.


Regards, Rogério Brito.

[0]: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-embeddedfiles

Hi,

Thanks for the bug report, and sorry for the delay in replying!

However, Exaile's copy of simplejson isn't exactly the same as the
contents of the python-simplejson package in the Debian archives. I
was intending to fix this bug while uploading the latest Exaile bugfix
release to the archives, but the Jamendo plugin breaks if you remove
the embedded copy of simplejson and replace it with the contents of
python-simplejson. I'd rather not break a working plugin, so I'll
leave this bug unfixed for now.

Kind regards,
- Vincent Cheng

Dear submitter,

as the package exaile 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/813255

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

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org.

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Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)

I want to close this bug as exaile uses the python builtin json since 2015.
Feel free to reopen if this still happens for you with more information
so we can hopefully find and fix the issue.