Fix build failure: xarfile.pyx:509:34: Empty declarator https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8089412/empty-declarator-error-when-cythoning-a-class I guess "type" is somehow a reserved word in Cython now. --- xarfile.pyx.orig 2007-01-21 12:50:10.000000000 -0600 +++ xarfile.pyx 2018-11-04 06:20:24.000000000 -0600 @@ -506,10 +506,10 @@ class XarInfo(object): - def __init__(self, name, type = '', mode = '', uid = '', user = '', + def __init__(self, name, _type = '', mode = '', uid = '', user = '', gid = '', group = '', atime = '', mtime = '', ctime = ''): self.name = name - self.type = type + self.type = _type self.mode = mode self.uid = uid self.user = user