[MIR] python-babel

Would be nice to see a bug subscriber.

Tests are run, which is great. But two tests fail for me... Does this build clean for you? (It built cleanly in the archive a few weeks ago...)

python-babel also ships its own binary copy of certain locale data, which I'm not super thrilled about. We already have the less-comprehensive locales package as well as the much more comprehensive python-pyicu package.

Unfortunately, we can't just change nova to use pyicu because nova's interest is not in the babel library, but the pybabel build tool for managing gettext files. (Another duplicated tool in main.) But nova upstream used to use distutils for managing those files and explicitly went back to using babel, so it's unlikely they'll want to switch back yet again.

So, if we need python-babel for translations, I'm fine with us adding it to main. But two things:

A) Can I get a confirmation about the failing tests and ideally a fix if they are real?
B) Does nova really need python-babel if all it does is manage gettext files? Won't that be handled by the langpacks once it's in main? (i.e. this package won't need to ship its own po files)

What does it do with python-babel? This looks rather redundant, intltool handles building po files, the standard gettext module handles translations, and our standard locales handle localizing numbers and dates, etc.

Temporarily promoting to let nova build and unbreak beta-1, but will demote again afterwards.

built and binNEWed, demoting back to universe.

(FYI, python-babel's tests passed in a PPA, so my pbuilder must just be goofy.)

what is the status of this one?

My question B from comment #1 still stands.

"Does nova really need python-babel if all it does is manage gettext files? Won't that be handled by the langpacks once it's in main? (i.e. this package won't need to ship its own po files)"

[Expired for python-babel (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

With out python-babel installed we get the following error:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cinder/+bug/1126378

Override component to main
python-babel 0.9.6-1build1 in raring: universe/python -> main
python-babel 0.9.6-1build1 in raring amd64: universe/python/optional -> main
python-babel 0.9.6-1build1 in raring armhf: universe/python/optional -> main
python-babel 0.9.6-1build1 in raring i386: universe/python/optional -> main
python-babel 0.9.6-1build1 in raring powerpc: universe/python/optional -> main
python-pybabel 0.9.6-1build1 in raring amd64: universe/python/extra -> main
python-pybabel 0.9.6-1build1 in raring armhf: universe/python/extra -> main
python-pybabel 0.9.6-1build1 in raring i386: universe/python/extra -> main
python-pybabel 0.9.6-1build1 in raring powerpc: universe/python/extra -> main
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