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

[Julian Taylor]

On 10/07/2012 11:29 AM, Michael Bienia wrote:
> 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?
> 

its the wrong solution in Debian.
In Ubuntu just remove the dependency. python2.7 includes argparse.