Upgrade pycountry to 17.1.8 of January 2017

[Pander]

Please upgrade pycountry to version 1.15, see https://bitbucket.org/flyingcircus/pycountry and https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycountry

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

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[Pander (pander)]

Xenial needs this upgrade as many packages use the content which is at this time not up to date any more.

[Pander (pander)]

Use version 17.1.8, see https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycountry/

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Looks like pycountry 17.5.14+ds1-0ubuntu1 has been packaged and will be in the upcoming Ubuntu 17.10 :)