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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Barry,

Thanks for getting this moving! Yes, back-porting Oneiric/Natty version is 
fine. We'll handle the API changes as part of the migration.

Cheers

-- 
Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

On May 12, 2011, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On May 11, 2011, at 04:01 PM, Francis J. Lacoste wrote:
> >We would like to start migrating Launchpad to Python 2.7. That should help
> >us also for the next LTS migration (since it's unlikely that 2.6 would be
> >in it.)
> >
> >We talked in the past of providing a version of the next LTS python
> >version in a PPA to make it easier for people migrating from LTS to LTS.
> >Can we make this happen?
> 
> Hi Francis.  I've created this PPA:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/~pythoneers/+archive/lts
> 
> I'll start populating it next week.
> 
> >For Launchpad, in addition to python, we'd need the following package
> >available in the PPA:
> >
> >python-dev
> >python-psycopg2
> >python-apt
> >python-geoip
> >python-profiler
> >python-svn
> >python-subversion
> >python-sqlite
> >python-imaging
> >python-feedparser
> >python-paramiko
> >python-openid
> >python-openssl
> >python-chardet
> >python-tickcount
> >python-lxml
> >python-magic
> >python-pygments
> >python-subunit
> >python-support
> >python-pysqlite2
> >python-pyrex
> >python-egenix-mxdatetime
> >python-egenix-mxtools
> >python-amqplib
> >python-gmpy
> >
> >I'm not sure we need the one in that list that are all architecture.
> 
> Cool.  Thanks for that list.  Just to be clear, we're going to backport the
> Natty versions of these packages to Lucid, right?  I think that'll be more
> successful than trying to back port Maverick versions, since some of the
> older upstreams may have problems with Python 2.7.  That might mean a few
> API changes for you, but I suspect they'll be pretty minimal.
> 
> There might also be differences between the Natty versions and even newer
> upstreams that might show up in Oneiric or O+1, but I think we can cross
> that bridge when we get there.
> 
> -Barry

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