python OAuth in karmic

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 11:17:26AM -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 15:50 +0100, James Westby wrote:
> > I would therefore like some input from the release team on what
> > they feel would be the best course of action at this point for
> > Karmic and beyond. I see two possibilities:

> >   1) Change the packaging of ubuntuone-storage-protocol to
> >      use the system python-oauth, and do what we can to get any
> >      problems with that copy fixed. Leave the Ubuntu One team
> >      to deal with the fallout from this in their private code.

> I have pending branches which change the private code to use the system
> python-oauth, and to change ubuntuone-client to use python-oauth as
> well. We need to have python-oauth backported to Hardy though, as the
> server runs on Hardy LTS. Hopefully we can do this today, but I don't
> know who to poke to escalate the package going into backports.

> With the client and server fixed, we can fix ubuntuone-storage-protocol
> to use the system python-oauth as well, instead.

> I'll be making a new release tarball, with these fixes, and uploading
> the packaging for Karmic today or early tomorrow.

> Given the timing, and amount of work I have to do on the rest of the
> Ubuntu One client, I think it's best to just get this in and use the
> python-oauth that's already in main. And we can switch to poauth for
> Karmic+1 after I've had time to fix some issues and stabalize the
> APIs.

That's the same conclusion I came to from this thread.  I've escalated the
backport request directly to a member of the backport team.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
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