Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> writes: > Please don't rush this particular removal. There are good reasons why > packages might need to retain south support in some form until Xenial > 16.04LTS has been released - or at least until the freeze in February. > lava-server has had to drop support for Trusty upstream due to > different (django) issues but it is premature to remove south from > Debian at this stage.
This is Debian we are talking about, not Ubuntu... > The next upstream release of lava-server is expected to drop support > for south but this needs careful testing of upgrade paths for existing > users. You realize that django-south is already broken with the Django in Debian right? As in it is not possible to do any south migrations with the python-django-south and python-django packages in Debian. Some other things might be broken too. The suggested upgrade path by Django in Debian is to install python-django-south and Django 1.6.x using pip in a virtualenv, and this doesn't require it to be packaged in Debian. I can't visualize any upgrade path that would require the package to be still in Debian. It is also possible to only load python-django-south only if Django <= 1.6 is installed, which makes sense because it use isn't supported for anything more recent. -- Brian May <b...@debian.org>
