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[Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Lange wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Max Bowsher<maxb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Jonathan Lange wrote:
>>> Just a quick note to say thanks to maxb & wgrant (and anyone else
>>> involved!) for making it possible to hack on Launchpad in karmic. For
>>> months now I've been using a hardy chroot to do my development, and
>>> it's been a real pain.
>>>
>>> I've tweaked the wiki page to say what I needed to do to get things
>>> going. It wasn't much, but it may help other Launchpad devs who
>>> upgrade to karmic.
>> Hi Jonathan,
>>
>> A couple of followups on your tweaks:
>>
>> * Did you really need python-xml? Where did you get it from, seeing as
>> the package doesn't exist it Karmic?
>>
> 
> I'm not sure. I just did it because wgrant told me to!

Um, but, you shouldn't have been able to. Neither the Ubuntu archive for
karmic, nor ~launchpad's PPA, nor my PPA, contain python-xml.

>> * Perhaps we need to add python-crypto to launchpad-dependencies?
>>

Actually no, it's inferred by python-paramiko. Although perhaps we
*should* depend on python2.4-crypto, to ensure a 2.4-compatible one.

> From IRC, it looks like I should have simply upgraded.

Likely. But lp-deps could enforce the python-2.4-ness better.

Max.

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