[Python-apps-team] Bug#684992: cloud-init: Dependencies make this difficult to backport, are they needed?

[Micah Anderson]

Package: cloud-init
Version: 0.6.3-2
Severity: minor

Hi,

I was looking at getting cloud-init on some squeeze machines and found that you
have prepared an experimental package, thanks for that!

However, the dependencies are quite difficult to massage into squeeze. A 
couple questions about these:

.. ifupdown (>= 0.6.10ubuntu5) - this is an ubuntu only version, the squeeze
  version is 0.6.10, can the debian package depend on this version, or does
  it actually need to be a newer one?

.. python (>= 2.6.6-7~) - squeeze has 2.6.6-3+squeeze7, i wonder if this 
  dependency is also just an ubuntu one, and this could be set to the
  debian squeeze version?

.. the build-depends on cdbs >= 0.4.90~ was mentioned in the changelog,
  can you give a reason why that bump was needed (squeeze has 0.4.89)

thanks!
micah

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash