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.laco...@canonical.com 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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