Subject: Re: bug#53046: [PATCH] gnu: python-args: Patch reference to basestring.

From: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2022 22:34:52 +0100

Maxime Devos schreef op zo 09-01-2022 om 22:15 [+0100]:
> > This fixes a build failure in the 'sanity-check' phase.
> > +             (substitute* "args.py"
> > +               (("basestring") "str"))
> 
> Does it actually fix the build failure, or is it only suppressed?
> [...]

According to <https://github.com/kennethreitz-archive/args/pull/19>,
the tests are excluded from the tarball.  It would be useful to
switch to git-fetch such that tests can be run, verifying whether
this change causes problems or not.

Greetings,
Maxime