Switch to D-Base32 ID encoding, drop Python 3.2 support

Bug #1128953 reported by Jason Gerard DeRose
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UserCouch
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Jason Gerard DeRose

Bug Description

So that we have a smaller target, and don't spend so much time maintaining back-ports, we're going to be dropping support for Precise and Quantal as we make the final steps toward Dmedia being production ready:

http://blog.novacut.com/2013/02/dropping-support-for-ubuntu-precise-and.html

One of the breaking changes will be switching from standard RFC-3548 Base32 encoding to our proposed D-Base32 encoding, the rationale for which is here:

http://docs.novacut.com/dbase32/design.html

Although the Base32 encoding used is UserCouch isn't particularly important (it's just used for generating random user name and password, and random OAuth 1a tokens), it's a change we can make right now even before we switch the encoding used in Microfiber and Dmedia.

So it's a good way to further test D-Base32, and move toward getting Dmedia production ready. Also see the related Microfiber bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/microfiber/+bug/1122897

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status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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