[Python-modules-team] Bug#689629: Please use python-argparse instead of python2.6-argparse as builddep

[Michael Bienia]

On 2012-10-04 20:15:44 +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> On 04.10.2012 18:47, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> > * Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach at ubuntu.com>, 2012-10-04, 17:54:
> >> -               python2.6-argparse,
> >> +               python-argparse,
> > 
> > No, this is wrong. python2.6-argparse is fully intentional here. Quoting 
> > the changelog:
> > 
> > | * Change D-B to python2.6-argparse to force installation during build
> > |   (this would otherwise be satisfied by python2.7 which provides
> > |   python-argparse).
> > 
> > (I filed #689633, BTW.)
> > 
> > Maybe I could propose a better patch, but I don't know what you're 
> > trying to achieve. :)

The problem is that Ubuntu doesn't support Python 2.6 anymore (only
2.7), therefore "argparse" got removed and "sorl-thumbnail" was sitting
in dependency wait on "python2.6-argparse" indefinitely.

If replacing "python2.6-argparse" with "python-argparse" is the wrong
solution, do you have a better solution on how to make it build in
Ubuntu? Or should the package get removed completely due to the indirect
dependency on python2.6?

Thanks for your help.

Michael Bienia