Public bug reported:
In python2.5, elementtree is included with python itself, as
xml.etreeElementTree (http://docs.python.org/lib/module-
xml.etree.ElementTree.html). Because of this, the elementtree package
has not included python2.5 support since 1.2.6-8 (see changelog). This
is needlessly breaking a lot of old code. I'd like to reverse that
decision, and set the elementtree package to work with python2.5
In particular:
a) old packages which use elementtree are breaking on Ubuntu (e.g. see bug
#84145 and bug #83639). Not such a big problem(we can fix these as they crop up)
b) More importantly, we will also be breaking a lot of user-scripts (see bug
#84687)
For reference, at least the following packages are likely to be
affected. If we aren't going to install elementtree for python2.5, these
will need to be manually checked/fixed:
$ apt-cache rdepends python-elementtree
python-elementtree
Reverse Depends:
python-turbogears
python-kid
python-jtoolkit
python-elementtidy
python-dogtail
python-celementtree
pyste
exaile
python-qt4
In addition, there are several other packages which indirectly depend on
python-elementtree.
Installing for python2.5 isn't going to cause much trouble for anybody.
The only people installing it will be those with old code, and a
significant number of them will want to use it with python2.5
** Affects: elementtree (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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please build elementtree for python2.5
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/104184
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