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[curtis Hovey <curtis.hovey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 07/14/2011 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.

I am preparing a branch to remove the old jslint.

> Conflicting packages:
>
> Oneiric users cannot install launchpad because python-profiler conflicts
> with Python 2.6/2.7 It appears to require surgery to install. I forced
> it to install and it overwrote files installed by other packages. I am
> not familiar with the issue, but this seams like a candidate for lp
> packaging/egg/sourcecode to ensure the features we want are available.
> However, the package says it conflicts with python2.5. Do we really need
> this package? Can we remove it from the deps now that we use python2.6?

I have verified that the package is not needed. The 2.6 version is
identical to what ships with 2.6 except for comments. the 2.7 version is
subtly different, stdlib was updated to modern sort  rules.

I will remove python-profiler and spidermonkey-bin from Lp's deps.

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Curtis Hovey
http://launchpad.net/~sinzui
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