[Python-modules-team] Bug#562449: celementtree: Depends on python2.4 packages

[Raphael Hertzog]

forcemerge 562449 564377
reassign 562449 ftp.debian.org
retitle 562449 RM: celementtree -- RoM; only useful with python < 2.5
thanks

On Thu, 24 Dec 2009, dktrkranz at debian.org wrote:
> Squeze will release with Python 2.5 and Python 2.6, while Python 2.4
> is scheduled for removal when no packages will depend on it. Recent
> python-defaults disabled support for Python 2.4 already, so it is no
> longer supported version for module and extension building.
> 
> This package is either part of standard library in newer Python, or
> known not to work with Python 2.5 or newer, so it will be removed in
> a very near future.
> 
> If you don't believe this package has to be removed, please follow in
> the bug report, otherwise this will become a RM request together with
> python2.4 package.

It's about time to remove the package since it now fails to build from
source due to the fact that python 2.4 support is disabled already (see
#564377).

Thus I'm reassigning it to ftp.debian.org.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog