Please merge python-utmp 0.8 from Debian testing

I did the merge with the help of MoM.

Attached is the debdiff. A ppa is built for lucid here:
https://launchpad.net/~showard314/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=lucid

@sponsors: The only remaining change is the removal of dh_python from debian/rules. This was put in a few releases ago. I just forwarded it upstream, but I feel that diff is trivial and possibly unnecessary. I, personally, think a sync with debian would suffice and forget the merge. What do you think?

Hi,

I think you're right: it's not worth having a merge for a 'cleaner' rules file (as dh_python is not doing anything). This should be fixed in the Debian package, so please convert this merge request into a sync request, and report to Debian the obsolete call to dh_python. This is the message I have when building the package:
dh_python: Doing nothing since dh_pycompat exists; dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral should do the work. You can remove dh_python from your rules file.

Thanks for your work,
Fabrice

Thanks for the help Fabrice, forwarded upstream:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561062

and I think is now ready for the sync. I get the same message you do:

dh_python: Doing nothing since dh_pycompat exists; dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral should do the work. You can remove dh_python from your rules file.

Hi,

sorry I didn't noticed before, but the package from Debian cannot be installed in Ubuntu:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python-utmp:
 python-utmp depends on python (<< 2.6); however:
  Version of python on system is 2.6.4-0ubuntu2.

It's still using python 2.5 (file debian/pyversion).
Can you please update it to make use of python 2.6? The best way would be to set XS-Python-Version in debian/control.

Sorry about that,
Fabrice

Thanks Fabrice, you've been actively mentoring me unofficially through all the sponsorhsips. Thanks! I've learned a lot about dh_pysupport.

This package uses a pyversions file instead of XS-Python-Version, I set the pyversions to 2.5- (which is >=2.5, since the module works on 2.5 up through python3), and bumped the depends on python-support to >= 0.5.3 (as per debian python packaging policy). I'm updating the debian bug from above to include these changes.

Here is the debdiff, I'll attach diffs of debian/ from ubuntu and debian too to be clear.

I installed and used the package on a lucid VM.

0.7.4 ubuntu to 0.8 ubuntu

0.8 debian to 0.8 ubuntu

Thanks for your work. I have uploaded your work with two small changes:

* I ran update-maintainer to update the Maintainer field to the new policy
* I converted the package to a native one (0.8-1ubuntu1 to 0.8ubuntu1), because the Debian package is native.

The Debian package maintainer is upstream maintainer and he converted the package to a native one. Please ask the maintainer to revert back to a real upstream package (without the debian directory) and a Debian package. This will make packaging changes easier (like our merge).

This bug was fixed in the package python-utmp - 0.8ubuntu1

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python-utmp (0.8ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian testing (LP: #496397), remaining changes:
    - bumped dh_pysupport to depend on > 0.5.3
    - debian/pyversions now >= 2.5
    - debian/rules removed unnecessary dh_python
    - rm debian/pycompat
 -- Scott Howard <email address hidden> Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:38:08 -0500