Hi John, On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 00:04 -0700, John Wright wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:51:24PM +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > Package: python-debian > > Version: 0.1.16ubuntu1 > > Severity: normal > > > > Older versions of apt_pkg don't have a TagFile class, making the > > python-debian testsuite fail with these versions of apt_pkg. > > > > Attached patch makes python-debian only use apt_pkg for iterating over > > deb822 style paragraphs using apt_pkg if TagFile is present. > Thanks for the patch! But... python-debian actually conflicts with > python-apt (<< 0.7.94~), since versions before that either don't have > TagFile or have a broken implementation. Are you also suggesting > getting rid of the conflicts given this patch?
> I'm just a bit confused about what problem you're trying to solve, > because with only this patch, a system with old python-apt could run the > test suite and build the package, but the resulting package couldn't be > installed on that system. :) Ah, I hadn't noticed that. I was just running the tests on an older (Dapper I think) machine. I'll update the patch. FWIW I'm trying to get rid of some of the custom parsing of Debian control files in Launchpad and using python-debian in Launchpad instead. Cheers, Jelmer
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