Nagios-statd still using python2.5 which caused ftbfs in natty

[Mahyuddin Susanto]

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nagios-statd/3.12-1.1/+buildjob/2133976

Checking for already installed source dependencies...
debhelper: missing
cdbs: missing
python2.5: missing
python2.5: does not exist
help2man: missing
Checking for source dependency conflicts...
  /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/apt-get --purge $CHROOT_OPTIONS -q -y install debhelper cdbs python2.5 help2man
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
E: Package 'python2.5' has no installation candidate
apt-get failed.
Package installation failed
Trying to reinstall removed packages:
Trying to uninstall newly installed packages:
Source-dependencies not satisfied; skipping nagios-statd

[Bhavani Shankar (bhavi)]

Hello mahyuddin

Thanks for your patch but debian still has python 2.5 http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python2.5.html which will be phased out as squeeze releases I guess and according to this http://wiki.debian.org/Python/27transition at wheezy they are thinking to support both py2.6 and py2.7 So it will be a better idea to talk to debian maintainer and ask him weather he can provide normalized python support so as to make the package run in both debian and ubuntu and then sync it through

Waiting for your comments

regards

[Mahyuddin Susanto (udienz)]

Hello Bhavani

i talk to debian maintainer via debian bug 611191. I Totally agree if Debian Maintainer normalized his python and make it sync rather than merging.

In my opinion, this patch should applied if they won't change python support before natty release.
Thanks

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

A couple comments:
1. python2.7 is the default in natty, so shouldn't just python work in the build-deps?
2. Did you confirm this actually still works? I saw a bug about python2.6 not working, my guess is that would continue with 2.7: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=605784

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