On 12/20/2011 11:05 AM, Stéphane Graber wrote:
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On 12/20/2011 10:26 AM, Stéphane Graber wrote:
Hey everyone,
One of our goals for 12.04 is to be an LTS, which means supporting
all of Edubuntu 12.04 for 3 to 5 years. To make that easier, we're
trying to limit our dependencies as much as possible.
We already got rid of freemind and geogebra to avoid inheriting all
of java and it's now time to look at our python packages.
A quick look shows the following list of packages that we ship and
rely on python-central or python-support:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BarryWarsaw/PythonHelpers calibre
edubuntu-menueditor (python-central) lybniz
(python-central) opendict (python-central)
python-cherrypy3 (python-support) python-gevent
(python-support) python-pyparsing (python-support)
python-wxgtk2.8 (python-central) python-wxversion
(python-central) python-x2go
(calibre and python-x2go depend on one of the others but aren't
themselves using python-support or python-central)
The idea is to go through the list above and convert the packaging
to dh_python2 which is the supported way of doing python packaging
nowadays.
The conversion steps look like: 1) Check on Debian's side for a
newer version of the package already using dh_python2 2) Check on
Debian's side for a patch on the bug tracker that we could use 3)
Check on Ubuntu's side for a patch on the bug tracker that we could
use 4) Convert the packaging yourself 5) Submit any change back to
Debian 6) Upload
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BarryWarsaw/PythonHelpers provides some
more information.
I'll be having a look at the package list above over the next few
days, at least convert any of these packages that's only in Ubuntu
and look for existing fixes in Debian.
If you want to help, feel free to pick any of these, just make sure
to reply to this post so we all know who's doing what.
Thanks
I just converted and uploaded edubuntu-menueditor.
All the others on the list except wxwidgets2.8 (python-wxgtk2.8 and
python-wxversion) don't have a more recent version in Debian though
they may still have patches available either on Launchpad or on the
Debian BTS.
wxwidgets2.8 has a new version in Debian that uses dh_python2 but it's
a fairly critical library so it's not going to be an easy merge.
Uploaded lybniz and submitted the patch to Debian in bug 616882.
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Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com
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