Comment 4 for bug 637507

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:36:11 -0000, James Westby <email address hidden> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Hi,
>
> Launchpad suffers from a problem that many of us python programmers who
> work with Debian packages suffered from.
>
> Colin does a good summary of the problem here:
>
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/2009-07-02
> -python-sigpipe.html
>
> and William here:
>
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bzr-
> builddeb/+bug/399938/comments/7
>
> There are a fair number of packages that have this issue, which presumably hit on the
> Lucid upgrade.
>
> The fix is very simple.

Oh, and it's worth looking at anywhere that you call subprocess, as they
can suffer from the same thing. I can't say that making this change is
always the correct thing to do, but it may prevent some bugs in the
future.

Thanks,

James