Getting rid of python-central and python-support for 12.04

[Scott Howard]

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Scott Howard <showard314 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>> Hey everyone,
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>> One of our goals for 12.04 is to be an LTS, which means supporting all
>> of Edubuntu 12.04 for 3 to 5 years. To make that easier, we're trying
>> to limit our dependencies as much as possible.
>>
>> We already got rid of freemind and geogebra to avoid inheriting all of
>> java and it's now time to look at our python packages.
>>
>> A quick look shows the following list of packages that we ship and
>> rely on python-central or python-support:
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BarryWarsaw/PythonHelpers
>> calibre
>>    edubuntu-menueditor     (python-central)
>>    lybniz                  (python-central)
>>    opendict                (python-central)
>>    python-cherrypy3        (python-support)
>>    python-gevent           (python-support)
>>    python-pyparsing        (python-support)
>
> I'll take python-pyparsing. Patch is already in Debian BTS. I'll need
> a sponsor so I'll post the bug for it when it's ready.
> ~Scott

Ready for sponsoring:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pyparsing/+bug/910922

Cheers,
Scott