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

On 11-07-14 02:00 PM, curtis Hovey wrote:
> There are a few classes of broken deps that I think need discussion to
> determine how to fix Lp's deps in oneiric. I and Tim are currently
> reading the packages that our meta packages require, and install what we
> can, sometimes locating older version of packages.
> 
> Special packages:
> 
> The spidermonkey-bin package is  a good example here. We package it
> because it is notoriously hard to keep current; Ubuntu does not package
> it amymore. I could try to copy the package the package to ~launchpad's
> oneiric series, but the only use of it is jslint. Oh, and I see it uses
> a stale version of crockerford's fulljslint in the tree. Pocketlint uses
> seed, which is already installed with Ubuntu, and It uses the a very
> recent version of fulljslint. I propose we just use pocketlint.

If pocketlint packages the newer version of fulljslint but uses a
different JS engine, I'm all in favor of it.

I wouldn't mind ditching our lint version in favour of pocketlint
altogether. If I recall correctly, the only differences were in some
doctest lint. Since py unittest are now the preferred way of writing
unit tests, I doubt anybody would care about these difference. And if
they do, they should just patch pocketlint ;-)

> Old packages:
> 
> I have python-subunit pinned, The current version cannot be installed.
> This looks like a python2.7 issue. Updating Lp to python 2.7 is the
> official answer from Robert when he closed the bug I reported. We do not
> have a plan to get to 2.7. By plan, I mean a tagged bugs, committed
> engineers, and a release plan to make Lp run on 2.7. I do not think we
> want to backport python2.7 to Lucid. We could republish the the order
> python 2.6 packages in ~launchpad's repo.
> 

Actually, we do plan on backporting python 2.7 to lucid. Well, not us,
but the distro. I think there is already a PPA available with 2.7 for
Lucid. We still haven't scheduled the ugprade yet though.

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Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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