python-sqlite2 retirement/orphaning

2012-02-07 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
In cleaning up some half-retired packages yesterday, we discovered that the python-sqlite2 maintainer wishes to retire the package. There are a few packages that depend on it but after reviewing the history and the code of the packages, I think that it is reasonably safe to let this go ahead.

Re: python-sqlite2 retirement/orphaning

2012-02-07 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/2012 07:08 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: In Fedora, there are several packages that have an explicit: Requires: python-sqlite2 I've reviewed the code for all of them and discovered that most will try to import sqlite3 from the stdlib if

Re: python-sqlite2 retirement/orphaning

2012-02-07 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 08:03:01PM +0100, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: * roundup I've had an outstanding bug open on this for a while -- this is a packaging bug as roundup now uses the built-in sqlite3 module by default. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690246 Thanks, I've

Re: python-sqlite2 retirement/orphaning

2012-02-07 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 10:08:03 -0800, TK (Toshio) wrote: There is one package that actually has a code dependency on pysqlite2. I've submitted a patch and asked someone I know who uses the package to test it: * plague https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=788189 Last time Plague has

Re: python-sqlite2 retirement/orphaning

2012-02-07 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 09:35:20PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 10:08:03 -0800, TK (Toshio) wrote: There is one package that actually has a code dependency on pysqlite2. I've submitted a patch and asked someone I know who uses the package to test it: * plague