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[Andrew Garner <muzazzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Turns out I was simply unaware of how far back the debhelper approach is
supported.  This easily goes back to lucid/10.04 and debian6/squeeze.  The
only minor issues are the flags that get passed in to use python-support
vs. the newer python2 system, and there isn't a debhelper script for
cleaning up the sphinx documentation prior to python-sphinx 1.0.7+dfsg.   I
used the debianized nova package approach and conditionally set the correct
option for older releases now and I think python-support is only required
on lucid at the moment.  For sphinx, the few minor commands to run were
pretty easy to manually add.

So, this is a non-issue - sorry for the noise. :)

I pushed a new cleaned up contrib/debian/ to the 1.0 master branch and
these build with pbuilder for all supported distributions 10.04+ as well as
debian/squeeze.   I pushed 1.0.8 based packages to
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/holland-backup:/staging/for
all the distributions OBS supports.

I have only done cursory testing on the debian packages so far, so they're
still in staging.

~Andy


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Tim Soderstrom
<tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I think that's worth it. 1.0.6 can still be had for older versions, yes?
> So folks have a solution that works and LTS releases are fairly version
> frozen anyway. I think it's well worth it.
>
> On Jan 9, 2013, at 4:50 PM, Andrew Garner wrote:
>
> > I am finally finding some time to gear up for a holland 1.0.8 release
> which is forthcoming.  I have staging packages on OBS built for
> rhel/fedora, and hashing through the minor debian/ubuntu issues.
> >
> > Does anyone have any input on how far back we need to support ubuntu
> distributions?  I am hoping to deprecate the old python-support dependency
> based packages so I am not maintaining multiple package formats and use the
> simpler packages we started building for 12.04.
> >
> > This package format lets us support back to at least oneiric/11.10
> easily - is this sufficient?   This will only affect whether we push new
> holland updates to old distributions.  I.e. holland 1.0.8 would only
> support oneiric+.
> >
> > I rarely use holland on ubuntu, so perhaps someone who does can provide
> some input on what they would like to see.
> >
> > ~Andy
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