Huh, I actually resolved a bunch of them in #886 but apparently I didn't catch them all. I'll pull this down and merge it in, thanks!

How did you get those warnings? I tried to reproduce this on master and I didn't get any SyntaxWarnings at all. did you just run python3 -m compileall in the terminator dir?

Gonna merge this in, but still curious as to how you were able to generate those syntax warnings.

I have discovered this issue because the XBPS package manager used by Void Linux has a trigger for byte compiling python packages.

There are likely better ways to reproduce this, but I used the following method to reproduce it manually:

cd terminator
python3 setup.py install --root="$PWD/dest"
cd dest
python3 -m compileall -f -q .

Older versions of Python do not print these warnings. I used Python 3.12.3.

Hi there @mattrose and everyone.

I ran just now into the related issue (#920) on the same OS as the issue creator (Ubuntu 24), with exactly the same logs, and there are a couple of things about this fix that I’d like to better understand. Please excuse me if my questions are stupid, but:

• It seems that version 2.1.4 fixes this, but at the time of writing this, apt sticks to 2.1.3 for Ubuntu 24.04 (https://packages.ubuntu.com/noble/terminator). Are there any plans to provide 2.1.3 for 24.04?
• I don’t understand how severe the consequences of those syntax issues are. Does it partly break Terminator’s setup? I get the No such file or directory: '/etc/xdg/terminator/config' error when launching Terminator after this installation (kinda like in Terminator v2.1.3 Errors on macOS Ventura #787, but just the parts about the XDG config) and I can’t figure out whether this is a related or unrelated issue, nor whether it is safe to use Terminator in this potentially-broken-setup state.

Thanks.

I am not a maintainer nor a contributor of gnome-terminator, but I might still be able to answer some of your questions @mminot-yseop:

• It seems that version 2.1.4 fixes this, but at the time of writing this, apt sticks to 2.1.3 for Ubuntu 24.04 (https://packages.ubuntu.com/noble/terminator). Are there any plans to provide 2.1.3 for 24.04?

This is outside the control of terminator. Ubuntu decides which versions of packages it wishes to ship. To quote the Ubuntu documentation (particularly the backports section, which is only partially relevant here, but I like its description of the versioning process):

When Ubuntu releases a new version of its OS every 6 months, that release is largely frozen in time. While the software that is part of that release will get bug fixes and security patches, new major releases of software and the new features that come with them will not be available.

I wasn't able to find any terminator 2.1.4 backport for Ubuntu 24.04 "noble", so the only solution which doesn't require manual tinkering with apt repositories is to update to Ubuntu 24.10 "oracular" which provides terminator v2.1.4.

• I don’t understand how severe the consequences of those syntax issues are. Does it partly break Terminator’s setup? I get the No such file or directory: '/etc/xdg/terminator/config' error when launching Terminator after this installation (kinda like in Terminator v2.1.3 Errors on macOS Ventura #787, but just the parts about the XDG config) and I can’t figure out whether this is a related or unrelated issue, nor whether it is safe to use Terminator in this potentially-broken-setup state.

This issue is inconsequential and can be mostly ignored. It's unlikely that it caused the issues you're describing.

Thanks a lot for the detailed answer.
Indeed, Terminator has been working basically as usual despite the installation issues. As for the errors on startup, they seem to have disappeared now. I cannot tell whether this is because Terminator created required config files and directories automatically or if it is the consequence of other package upgrades, though (some of my packages were initially outdated because I naively assumed that the Ubuntu installer ended up doing an automatic apt upgrade 😅).

Chiming in here late to say that you can update to the latest version from my PPA here: https://launchpad.net/~mattrose/+archive/ubuntu/terminator