Closed issue by MeganerdNL on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/46714 Description: ### Is this a new report? Yes ### System Info Void 6.5.7_1 x86_64 AuthenticAMD/VM uptodate rF ### Package(s) Affected fail2ban-1.0.2 ### Does a report exist for this bug with the project's home (upstream) and/or another distro? Yes it does: https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/3487 It is because `asynchat` module has been removed (amongst others) in python 3.12: See: https://docs.python.org/3.12/whatsnew/3.12.html ### Expected behaviour 1. Byte-compile on install. 2. Start after installing. ### Actual behaviour 1. On install it will not byte-compile: ``` [*] Configuring unpacked packages fail2ban-1.0.2_2: configuring ... Byte-compiling python3.12 code for module fail2ban... usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fail2ban/tests/fail2banregextestcase.py:224: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s' "1490349000 test failed.dns.ch", "^\s*test \S+" usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fail2ban/tests/fail2banregextestcase.py:435: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\S' '^'+prefix+'User \S+ not allowed\n' usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fail2ban/tests/fail2banregextestcase.py:443: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\S' '^'+prefix+'User \S+ not allowed\n' usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fail2ban/tests/fail2banregextestcase.py:444: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\d' '^'+prefix+'Received disconnect from port \d+' usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fail2ban/tests/fail2banregextestcase.py:451: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s' _test_variants('common', prefix="\s*\S+ sshd\[\d+\]:\s+") usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fail2ban/tests/fail2banregextestcase.py:537: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\[' 'common[prefregex="^svc\[\d+\] connect .+$"' usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fail2ban/tests/servertestcase.py:1375: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s' "`{ nft -a list chain inet f2b-table f2b-chain | grep -oP '@addr-set-j-w-nft-mp\s+.*\s+\Khandle\s+(\d+)$'; } | while read -r hdl; do`", usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fail2ban/tests/servertestcase.py:1378: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s' "`{ nft -a list chain inet f2b-table f2b-chain | grep -oP '@addr6-set-j-w-nft-mp\s+.*\s+\Khandle\s+(\d+)$'; } | while read -r hdl; do`", usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fail2ban/tests/servertestcase.py:1421: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s' "`{ nft -a list chain inet f2b-table f2b-chain | grep -oP '@addr-set-j-w-nft-ap\s+.*\s+\Khandle\s+(\d+)$'; } | while read -r hdl; do`", usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fail2ban/tests/servertestcase.py:1424: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s' "`{ nft -a list chain inet f2b-table f2b-chain | grep -oP '@addr6-set-j-w-nft-ap\s+.*\s+\Khandle\s+(\d+)$'; } | while read -r hdl; do`", usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fail2ban/tests/fail2banregextestcase.py:224: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s' "1490349000 test failed.dns.ch", "^\s*test \S+" usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fail2ban/tests/fail2banregextestcase.py:435: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\S' '^'+prefix+'User \S+ not allowed\n' usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fail2ban/tests/fail2banregextestcase.py:443: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\S' '^'+prefix+'User \S+ not allowed\n' usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fail2ban/tests/fail2banregextestcase.py:444: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\d' '^'+prefix+'Received disconnect from port \d+' usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fail2ban/tests/fail2banregextestcase.py:451: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s' _test_variants('common', prefix="\s*\S+ sshd\[\d+\]:\s+") usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fail2ban/tests/fail2banregextestcase.py:537: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\[' 'common[prefregex="^svc\[\d+\] connect .+$"' usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fail2ban/tests/servertestcase.py:1375: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s' "`{ nft -a list chain inet f2b-table f2b-chain | grep -oP '@addr-set-j-w-nft-mp\s+.*\s+\Khandle\s+(\d+)$'; } | while read -r hdl; do`", usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fail2ban/tests/servertestcase.py:1378: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s' "`{ nft -a list chain inet f2b-table f2b-chain | grep -oP '@addr6-set-j-w-nft-mp\s+.*\s+\Khandle\s+(\d+)$'; } | while read -r hdl; do`", usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fail2ban/tests/servertestcase.py:1421: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s' "`{ nft -a list chain inet f2b-table f2b-chain | grep -oP '@addr-set-j-w-nft-ap\s+.*\s+\Khandle\s+(\d+)$'; } | while read -r hdl; do`", usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fail2ban/tests/servertestcase.py:1424: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s' "`{ nft -a list chain inet f2b-table f2b-chain | grep -oP '@addr6-set-j-w-nft-ap\s+.*\s+\Khandle\s+(\d+)$'; } | while read -r hdl; do`", Updating ldconfig(8) cache... fail2ban-1.0.2_2: installed successfully. ``` 2. It will not start: `2023-10-16 10:12:37,841 fail2ban [9232]: ERROR No module named 'asynchat'` ### Steps to reproduce 1. Install fail2ban 2. Start fail2ban