Hi Max, Thanks for suggesting this clean-up.
On September 27, 2010, Max Bowsher wrote: > The Launchpad PPA for Lucid currently contains numerous packages to > accommodate Python 2.5. However, ever since the "use system python > version" changes landed, these are not necessary for development. > > In the interests of not causing future people working on Launchpad, on a > current-Ubuntu-LTS system, to install numerous unnecessary customized > packages, I propose we clean the Launchpad Lucid PPA of packages which > exist there solely for Python 2.5 support. > > Since it might possibly be premature to delete them outright, I suggest > that a ~launchpad admin activate a new "obsolete" PPA, into which the > relevant packages can be copied, and then deleted from the main ppa. > > The packages concerned are: > > * distribute - special case, was an attempt to make compatible with > python 2.5, but did not work, so just delete this outright, don't copy. > > * egenix-mx-base > * psycopg2 > * pycxx > * pysvn > * python-apt > * python-defaults > * python-geoip > * python-imaging > * python-pysqlite2 > * python-support > * python2.5 > * subversion > * tickcount All moved to obsolete. > > Which leaves the following, not related to Python 2.5: > > * bzr-lpreview-body > * bzr-pqm > * geoip-data-city-lite > * launchpad-dependencies > * pocket-lint > * postgresql-8.3 > * python-debian > * slony1 > * slony1pg83 > * xulrunner > > It may also be appropriate to move the postgresql-8.3 and slony1pg83 > packages to the obsolete PPA now or later. > I moved those as well. I also deleted all the Karmic packages. Cheers -- Francis J. Lacoste [email protected]
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