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emaster987's avatar
emaster987
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

Deprecated message using Dropbox from Fedora RPM repos

System information:
Operating System: Fedora Linux 35
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.91.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.16.11-200.fc35.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-1065G7 CPU @ 1.30GHz
Memory: 7.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Iris® Plus Graphics
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I use Dropbox application from RPMfusion-nonfree repo on Fedora 35. In the last few months when using Dropbox from the bash I see the error message:
/usr/bin/dropbox:614: DeprecationWarning: isSet() is deprecated, use is_set() instead
 if self.stop_event.isSet(): break
every time I give a command line with dropbox (e.g. dropbox status or dropbox stop or dropbox start). This is just to let you know before this issue becomes critical. 



  • Hi emaster987,

    Yes, from time to time different things become deprecated and replaced by others. In the particular case a library method is on focus. Let's hope Dropbox staff will take this in mind.

    You have put in your description a lot of information but your Python version is missing (the actual issuer of that warning). Can you post your version? The result of command like:

    python3 -c "import sys; print(sys.version)"

    By the way, you can avoid that disturbing message as follow the provided direction within the message itself - i.e. replace the deprecated method name and set newer one (they are synonyms, actually). This could get achieved by following command:

    sudo sed -i s/isSet/is_set/ /usr/bin/dropbox

    Hope this helps.

  • Здравко's avatar
    Здравко
    Legendary | Level 20

    Hi emaster987,

    Yes, from time to time different things become deprecated and replaced by others. In the particular case a library method is on focus. Let's hope Dropbox staff will take this in mind.

    You have put in your description a lot of information but your Python version is missing (the actual issuer of that warning). Can you post your version? The result of command like:

    python3 -c "import sys; print(sys.version)"

    By the way, you can avoid that disturbing message as follow the provided direction within the message itself - i.e. replace the deprecated method name and set newer one (they are synonyms, actually). This could get achieved by following command:

    sudo sed -i s/isSet/is_set/ /usr/bin/dropbox

    Hope this helps.

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