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

[Kees Cook]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 02:57:41PM -0400, James Westby wrote:
> 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?

Yeah, but it'll totally be 1.6.x by then.  ;)

/me is open to suggestions not involving importing apt_pkg for its version
comparison routines.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team