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[Robert Collins <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Sidnei da Silva
<sidnei.da.silva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Maris,
>
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Maris Fogels
> <maris.fogels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> As you may know there is a problem with the stock pysycopg2 on Maverick that
>> prevents one from running the test suite (bug 631010).  I have fixed this issue
>> in the launchpad-dependencies package, but my fix requires manual intervention
>> on your part.
>>
>> You only need to run this fix if you are:
>>
>>  a) Running Maverick, and
>>  b) Have not pinned, forced, or otherwise downgraded to python-pscyopg2 2.0.13.
>>
>>
>> If you do require the fix, here are the steps to get launchpad-dependencies 0.82
>> to install:
>>
>>  $ sudo apt-get update
>>  $ sudo apt-get install python-psycopg2=2.0.13-2ubuntu2
>>  $ sudo apt-get install launchpad-developer-dependencies
>>
>>
>> This pulls in the latest packages from our archive, forces apt to downgrade
>> psycopg2 to our backported version, and then installs launchpad-dependencies
>> 0.82, which depends up said backport.
>>
>> You do not need to pin or hold the older version python-psycopg2 with this
>> solution.  launchpad-dependencies 0.82 will hold the old version for you.  If
>> you already have python-psycopg2 held or pinned you may now remove the hold.
>>
>> Once python-psycopg2 on Maverick has been fixed someone must edit
>> launchpad-dependencies again to allow it on our systems.
>>
>> If you have any questions, then please reply in this thread.
>
> Just to be clear, this is a stop-gap measure until Launchpad is fixed
> to use unicode strings correctly like Henning commented on the bug
> correct? That's what we did in Landscape. I don't think
> python-psycopg2 should be patched to accomodate for our brokeness.

I don't think using built in strings in python is at all broken.

In python3 all strings are unicode and there is a bytes type, but in
Python2 the bytes type is (and this is pretty crazy) aliased with the
default string type.

-Rob