[Python-apps-team] Bug#684992: cloud-init: Dependencies make this difficult to backport, are they needed?

[Jakub Wilk]

* Micah Anderson <micah at debian.org>, 2012-08-15, 10:54:
>However, the dependencies are quite difficult to massage into squeeze. 
>A couple questions about these:
>
>.. ifupdown (>= 0.6.10ubuntu5) - this is an ubuntu only version, the 
>squeeze version is 0.6.10, can the debian package depend on this 
>version, or does it actually need to be a newer one?

(I don't know about this one.)

>.. python (>= 2.6.6-7~) - squeeze has 2.6.6-3+squeeze7, i wonder if 
>this dependency is also just an ubuntu one, and this could be set to 
>the debian squeeze version?

This was automatically generated by dh_python2. The reason appears to 
be (quoting python-defaults changelog):

| * pycompile:
|   - Don't over-optimize, check the timestamps of byte-code files.
|   - Add options -f/--force, -O.
|   - Copy stdout/stderr of py_compile processes in case of error.
|   - Propagate the exit value of the py_compile processes.
|   - Update manual page.
| * Bump depends to require the fixed pycompile for dh_python2 based
|   package builds.

Now, one could wonder: if the bug is so severe that it warranted 
dependency bump, why hasn't it been fixed in stable? I don't know the 
answer.

>.. the build-depends on cdbs >= 0.4.90~ was mentioned in the changelog, 
>can you give a reason why that bump was needed (squeeze has 0.4.89)

dh_python2 support was added to cdbs in 0.4.90.

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Jakub Wilk