Bug#1008502: vdirsyncer: Unknown error occured: unmatched ')'

[Christof Schulze]

Package: vdirsyncer
Version: 0.16.8-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

Running vdirsyncer sync causes the above error message about unmatched
')'. This renders 0.4.4 - the version in stable - unusable. The root cause is that
python-click-threading 0.4.4, which vdirsyncer is depending on,
introduced an incompatibility with python-click.
More info on the problem can be found in [2] and [3].

The version in testing (0.18.0-6) is working fine as it depends on a
python-click-version that does not have the problem. So installing the
version from testing including its dependencies works.

Would you please upgrade vdirsyncer in stable to the current version in
testing to make the program work again for everyone on stable?

Cheers,

Christof

[1] https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer/pull/891
[2] https://github.com/click-contrib/click-threading/pull/5
[3] https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer/issues/887


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.3
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (400, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-10-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages vdirsyncer depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.60
ii python3 3.9.2-3
ii python3-atomicwrites 1.4.0-2
ii python3-click 7.1.2-1
ii python3-click-log 0.2.1-2
ii python3-click-threading 0.4.4-2
ii python3-requests 2.25.1+dfsg-2
ii python3-requests-toolbelt 0.9.1-1

vdirsyncer recommends no packages.

Versions of packages vdirsyncer suggests:
pn python3-requests-oauthlib <none>
pn vdirsyncer-doc <none>

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