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[Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx>]

I've received one positive comment on IRC, but no other comments. I
think this is sane.

flacoste/stub: Would one of you be happy to activate a new PPA named
"obsolete" under ~launchpad, and grant me additional archive uploader
access, in the same manner as I already have for the "ppa" PPA?

Thanks,
Max.


On 27/09/10 19:45, Max Bowsher wrote:
> The Launchpad PPA for Lucid currently contains numerous packages to
> accommodate Python 2.5. However, ever since the "use system python
> version" changes landed, these are not necessary for development.
> 
> In the interests of not causing future people working on Launchpad, on a
> current-Ubuntu-LTS system, to install numerous unnecessary customized
> packages, I propose we clean the Launchpad Lucid PPA of packages which
> exist there solely for Python 2.5 support.
> 
> Since it might possibly be premature to delete them outright, I suggest
> that a ~launchpad admin activate a new "obsolete" PPA, into which the
> relevant packages can be copied, and then deleted from the main ppa.
> 
> The packages concerned are:
> 
> * distribute - special case, was an attempt to make compatible with
> python 2.5, but did not work, so just delete this outright, don't copy.
> 
> * egenix-mx-base
> * psycopg2
> * pycxx
> * pysvn
> * python-apt
> * python-defaults
> * python-geoip
> * python-imaging
> * python-pysqlite2
> * python-support
> * python2.5
> * subversion
> * tickcount
> 
> Which leaves the following, not related to Python 2.5:
> 
> * bzr-lpreview-body
> * bzr-pqm
> * geoip-data-city-lite
> * launchpad-dependencies
> * pocket-lint
> * postgresql-8.3
> * python-debian
> * slony1
> * slony1pg83
> * xulrunner
> 
> It may also be appropriate to move the postgresql-8.3 and slony1pg83
> packages to the obsolete PPA now or later.
> 
> Max.

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