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[William Grant <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 18:42 +1000, Jonathan Lange wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Jonathan Lange<jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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!
> >
> 
> Apparently he didn't.

Well, what I said was that for me launchpad-developer-dependencies was
failing to install because it couldn't find python-xml, which is easily
and validly misinterpreted as you initially did.