Getting rid of python-central and python-support for 12.04
Scott Howard
showard314 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 2 17:48:06 UTC 2012
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> Hey everyone,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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)
I'll take python-pyparsing. Patch is already in Debian BTS. I'll need
a sponsor so I'll post the bug for it when it's ready.
~Scott
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