FTBFS in Hardy due to python-distutils-extra changes

 * No reverse dependencies at all
 * Just a single upload in Feisty, not maintained
 * not in Debian

I wouldn't mind removing it if nobody wants to fix it in time for Hardy.

Milestoning for the release so we remember to remove the package if it's not fixed.

I think its safe to remove this package, it has no rdepends and the functinality got merged into python-apt directly

Subscribed Sebastian Heinlein for confirmation.

We cannot remove the package from Hardy any more. We'll remove it in intrepid, and just ignore it in Hardy, that's the best we can do now.

The attached debdiff fixes the FTBFS and the clean targets. But feel free to ignore it and remove the package if that's a better solution :)

Ah, the package is in Universe... let me know if you want me to upload this or if you prefer to leave it as is and remove the package from the archive

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort [2008-05-09 18:44 -0000]:
> Ah, the package is in Universe... let me know if you want me to upload
> this or if you prefer to leave it as is and remove the package from the
> archive

Since it is obsolete, I'd still remove it from Intrepid. But thanks
for the patch for Hardy. I'm fine with fixing it in Hardy, but
~motu-sru needs to ack it first.

Martin Pitt wrote:
> Since it is obsolete, I'd still remove it from Intrepid. But thanks
> for the patch for Hardy. I'm fine with fixing it in Hardy, but
> ~motu-sru needs to ack it first.

Ok, fine with me. I think there's a whitelist for FTBFS but let's see what they
have to say.

 subscribe motu-sru

2008-05-14 08:48:14 INFO Removing candidates:
2008-05-14 08:48:14 INFO python-aptsources 0.0.1 in intrepid
2008-05-14 08:48:14 INFO python-aptsources 0.0.1 in intrepid amd64
2008-05-14 08:48:14 INFO python-aptsources 0.0.1 in intrepid hppa
2008-05-14 08:48:14 INFO python-aptsources 0.0.1 in intrepid i386
2008-05-14 08:48:14 INFO python-aptsources 0.0.1 in intrepid ia64
2008-05-14 08:48:14 INFO python-aptsources 0.0.1 in intrepid lpia
2008-05-14 08:48:14 INFO python-aptsources 0.0.1 in intrepid powerpc
2008-05-14 08:48:14 INFO python-aptsources 0.0.1 in intrepid sparc
2008-05-14 08:48:14 INFO Removed-by: Martin Pitt
2008-05-14 08:48:14 INFO Comment: unmaintained, Ubuntu-only, only one upload, FTBFS, functionality in python-apt now (LP#208097)
2008-05-14 08:48:14 INFO 8 packages successfully removed.

ACK. Please get it uploaded.

Uploaded to hardy-proposed

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here

Build and installs fine.

The package doesn't ship any tests or examples I could run.

I don't know the code at all, and I'm still too bad with this stuff, but this is what I've done. I've needed, I could poke Sebastian to have a quick look at it.

emilio@pika:~$ python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Apr 21 2008, 11:12:42)
[GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from aptsources import distro
>>> ubuntu = distro.UbuntuDistribution('ubuntu_hardy', 'hardy', 'Ubuntu', '8.04')
>>> ubuntu.is_codename('hardy')
True
>>> distro.get_distro()
<aptsources.distro.UbuntuDistribution instance at 0xb7d3184c>
>>> ubuntu.enable_component('universe')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/aptsources/distro.py", line 293, in enable_component
    sources.extend(self.main_sources)
AttributeError: UbuntuDistribution instance has no attribute 'main_sources'
>>> ubuntu.enable_component('main')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/aptsources/distro.py", line 293, in enable_component
    sources.extend(self.main_sources)
AttributeError: UbuntuDistribution instance has no attribute 'main_sources'
>>> from aptsources import sourceslist
>>> sources = sourceslist.SourcesList()
>>> ubuntu.get_sources(sources)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/aptsources/distro.py", line 85, in get_sources
    "Error: could not find a distribution template")
aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException
>>> ubuntu.enable_component('main')
>>> ubuntu.disable_component('main')
>>> ubuntu.disable_component('universe')
>>> ubuntu.disable_component('universeasdf')
>>>

Package installs and seems working properly (I did just trial tests, I lack knowledge of this package).

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