Why does nzbget need python3?

[loop]

For some reason (main Arch repo does this too) python is a dependency of nzbget. This breaks couchpotato-git, which has /usr/bin/python in the shebang, but python3 does not have a particular library that CP requires (quote_plus):

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'loop@pi ~ % sudo python /opt/couchpotato/CouchPotato.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/couchpotato/CouchPotato.py", line 21, in <module>
from couchpotato.environment import Env
File "/opt/couchpotato/couchpotato/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
from couchpotato.api import api_docs, api_docs_missing, api
File "/opt/couchpotato/couchpotato/api.py", line 1, in <module>
from couchpotato.core.helpers.request import getParams
File "/opt/couchpotato/couchpotato/core/helpers/request.py", line 1, in <module>
from couchpotato.core.helpers.encoding import toUnicode
File "/opt/couchpotato/couchpotato/core/helpers/encoding.py", line 3, in <module>
from urllib import quote_plus
ImportError: cannot import name 'quote_plus'
loop@pi ~ %
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I've logged an issue in Github - it doesn't seem to be platform dependent:
https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/issues/806

[WarheadsSE]

As stated in the issue, the problem is with couchpotato needing alteration to specify python2 instead of python, as on Arch, python3 is the default python.

[loop]

Rather than have a discussion on github, I'll continue here.

I can understand both of your reasons, but nzbget doesn't actually need to pull in python-anything. I can't find any other platform where nzbget is distributed as a binary where python is a dependency (compiling from source is different), hence my reason for filing the bug report against nzbget.

.... and thanks for the quick fix in the PKGBUILD too

[moonman]

AFAIK nzbget itself does not need python, but postprocessing scripts that come with it do: http://sourceforge.net/p/nzbget/code/HE ... ppscripts/