python-apt for python2.4 would be appreciated

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Binary package hint: python-apt

Is it possible for python-apt to continue to provide support for Python 2.4 in Jaunty? That would be useful for Launchpad and other older zope-based applications.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

that would add 58k (i386, compressed) on the CD (but the last python2.6 upload did save 350k), patch attached.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

This is unfortunately difficult. python2.4 is no longer marked as supported and that means that with our python system no python2.4/site-package files are generated anymore when installing the python-distutils-extra build depend of python-apt. The tools (dh_python) are also messing around in the buld tree and remove files that look unsupported. So including 2.4 symlinks/libs in the python-apt package itself was not possible without a lot of hacking (if at all).

I now build a python2.4-apt package that contains the 2.4 files and can be co-installed with the normal python-apt. Its in lp:~mvo/python-apt/python2.4 and I will also push it to my PPA. I can try to push it for jaunty, but its already relatively late.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I stand corrected, my build chroot was wrong [1]. The files can be part of python-apt just fine, it just needs a additional check to not run sphinx for python2.4 (its not available there).

I will merge it into bzr.

Thanks,
 Michael

[1] I got hit by #353251 - python-distutils was installed before python2.4 got installed and that triggered the problem.

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

Michael Vogt wrote:
> I stand corrected, my build chroot was wrong [1]. The files can be part
> of python-apt just fine, it just needs a additional check to not run
> sphinx for python2.4 (its not available there).
>
> I will merge it into bzr.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
> [1] I got hit by #353251 - python-distutils was installed before
> python2.4 got installed and that triggered the problem.
>
Thanks very much guys! This will help LP and other Zope-based projects.

Mark

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I just talked to the release manager and he would rather not have it uploaded at this point of the release. I can push for it harder if needed. Or is it ok to pull it from a PPA for LP ?

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

Michael Vogt wrote:
> I just talked to the release manager and he would rather not have it
> uploaded at this point of the release. I can push for it harder if
> needed. Or is it ok to pull it from a PPA for LP ?
>
It's OK, it can go in the LP PPA.

Kiko, I shouldn't be the one chasing this so that LP-dependencies is not
broken on Jaunty ;-).

Mark

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I don't see an action for the Ubuntu archive admins here (as opposed to some discussion with the release team), so I'm unsubscribing ubuntu-archive. Feel free to resubscribe and clarify if I'm mistaken.

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

We've rebuilt all the dependencies we actually had an issue with in the
PPA (it is mildly ironic that the deprecation of python2.4 upstream
happens within a shorter timeframe than our actual LTS support periods),
but for some reason two didn't get originally picked up -- I'm not sure
if it's because some people didn't get it upgraded or uninstalled, or
something else. This was one of them. I'm copying Francis to make sure
this gets noticed by him.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package python-apt - 0.7.9~exp2ubuntu11

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python-apt (0.7.9~exp2ubuntu11) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Matthias Klose ]
  * Build for python2.4 as well. LP: #354812.

  [ Michael vogt ]
  * setup.py:
    - only use sphinx for python2.5 or later
  * data/templates/Ubuntu.info.in:
    - updated for karmic

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Wed, 06 May 2009 14:28:56 +0200