We'd like you to use Launchpad web service version "1.0" in Lucid

[James Westby]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:32:28 -0700, Kees Cook <kees at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:57:57PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > Leonard Richardson [2010-03-30 10:44 -0400]:
> > > 1. When testing, make sure you're using launchpadlib 1.5.7 or later. A
> > > bug in earlier versions made launchpadlib use the 'beta' service in some
> > > circumstances even when you told it to use another version.
> > 
> > Right, that's what I stumbled on today, too. I synced 1.5.7 into lucid
> > now, and extensively tested with Apport.
> > 
> > Please bump the binary dependencies accordingly when doing the
> > porting.
> 
> To detect this at run-time, I'm using:
> 
> if launchpadlib.__version__ < '1.5.7':
>     raise ValueError, "Requires launchpadlib version 1.5.7 or later (%s in use)" % (launchpadlib.__version__)

You realise this is string comparison and if launchpad makes it to
1.5.10 it will tell them they need at least 1.5.7 and refuse to work?

Thanks,

James