As mentioned on Getting, Launchpad is not currently supported on Ubuntu Karmic Koala.

This page is a place to collect notes written for and by people living on the bleeding edge and attempting to get Launchpad working on Karmic.

Phase 1 - Python 2.4 - DONE

Phase 1 is to get it working on Karmic using Python 2.4 - this requires rebuilding quite a few Python module packages, as Python 2.4 is not a supported Python version in Karmic. These packages are in my PPA for Launchpad-related packages https://launchpad.net/~maxb/+archive/launchpad and are mostly synced into the official Launchpad PPA.

And that's it. DONE!

On to phase 2...

Phase 2 - Python 2.5

The ultimate goal is to migrate Launchpad to Python 2.6. Rather than go straight to Python 2.6, I (maxb) am focusing on Python 2.5 first as a stepping stone.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bugs?field.tag=python-upgrade

Launchpad code itself

https://code.launchpad.net/~maxb/launchpad/python2.5 contains a few fixes:

• Adjusting the Python version in the Makefiles
• Adjusting import statements to handle the built-in location of cElementTree in Python 2.5
• Making buildmailman.py compatible with Python 2.5 sys.path_importer_cache behaviour

• Fixing Launchpad's TestCase subclass for method renames in unittest in Python 2.5

• etc...

Launchpad source dependencies - Zope

Thanks to the completion and landing of Gary's zbuildout branch, the zope branch previously listed here is now obsolete.

However, you'll now need to fetch https://code.launchpad.net/~maxb/lp-source-dependencies/python2.5, for a patched version of zope.sendmail, working around a change in the ordering of atexit vs. waiting for non-main non-daemon threads to shut down which otherwise caused various Python processes to hang on shutdown.

Launchpad source dependencies - pygettextpo & pygpgme

The Makefiles of these two make direct reference to Python 2.4, you'll need to amend them appropriately.

Test Status for lp:~maxb/launchpad/python2.5@9012 based on lp:launchpad/stable@9287

• canonical.testing.layers.BaseLayer tests: Ran 250 tests with 0 failures and 0 errors

• canonical.testing.layers.LibrarianLayer tests: Ran 8 tests with 0 failures and 0 errors

• canonical.testing.layers.DatabaseLayer tests: Ran 43 tests with 0 failures and 0 errors

• canonical.testing.layers.LaunchpadLayer tests: Ran 23 tests with 0 failures and 0 errors

• canonical.testing.layers.ZopelessLayer tests: Ran 17 tests with 0 failures and 0 errors

• canonical.testing.layers.LaunchpadScriptLayer tests: Ran 72 tests with 0 failures and 0 errors

• canonical.testing.layers.LaunchpadZopelessLayer tests: Ran 3158 tests with 2 failures and 0 errors

  1. lib/lp/bugs/doc/checkwatches-cli-switches.txt: Looks to be formatting differences in help message
  2. lib/lp/bugs/doc/externalbugtracker-mantis-csv.txt: Sort order problem.

• canonical.launchpad.ftests.test_system_documentation.ProcessMailLayer tests: Ran 269 tests with 0 failures and 0 errors

• canonical.testing.layers.FunctionalLayer tests: Ran 164 tests with 0 failures and 0 errors

• canonical.testing.layers.LaunchpadFunctionalLayer tests: Ran 8174 tests with 10 failures and 0 errors

  1. lib/canonical/launchpad/ftests/../doc/pagetest-helpers.txt: CDATA section introduced
  2. lib/canonical/launchpad/ftests/../doc/tales.txt: Exception message changed in Py2.5.
  3. lib/canonical/launchpad/ftests/../doc/unicode_csv.txt: Py2.5 behaviour change in comparison
  4. lib/canonical/launchpad/scripts/ftests/librarianformatter.txt: Spurious characters.
  5. lib/lp/bugs/tests/externalbugtracker-xmlrpc-transport.txt: urllib2 seems to be behaving differently

  6. lp.soyuz.scripts.tests.test_copypackage.ReUploadFileTestCase.test_re_upload_file_does_not_leak_file_descriptors - 1 != 0

  7. lib/lp/translations/tests/../doc/poexport-language-pack.txt: Hints at tarfile.getnames() behaviour change as seen in unit tests too
  8. lib/lp/translations/tests/../doc/poexport-request-productseries.txt: Ditto.
  9. lib/lp/translations/tests/../doc/poexport-request.txt: Ditto.
  10. lib/lp/translations/tests/../doc/potemplate.txt: Ditto.

• canonical.testing.layers.AppServerLayer tests: Ran 72 tests with 0 failures and 0 errors

• canonical.testing.layers.DatabaseFunctionalLayer tests: Ran 3265 tests with 1 failures and 0 errors

  • lib/lp/registry/doc/teammembership.txt: Looks like benign formatting issue.

• canonical.testing.layers.PageTestLayer tests: Ran 5964 tests with 6 failures and 0 errors

  • lib/canonical/launchpad/pagetests/feeds/xx-links.txt: No longer replaces " with ".

  • lib/lp/answers/stories/question-add.txt, question-obfuscation.txt: Escaping issues as above, but with < and > too.

  • lib/lp/bugs/stories/feeds/xx-bug-{atom,html}.txt: Looks like benign formatting issue.
  • lib/lp/bugs/stories/distribution/xx-distribution-upstream-bug-report.txt: Formatting issue.

• canonical.testing.layers.TwistedLayer tests: Ran 219 tests with 0 failures and 0 errors

• canonical.testing.layers.TwistedLaunchpadZopelessLayer tests: Ran 23 tests with 0 failures and 0 errors

• canonical.testing.layers.TwistedAppServerLayer tests: Ran 5 tests with 0 failures and 0 errors

• canonical.testing.layers.ZopelessAppServerLayer tests: Ran 69 tests with 0 failures and 0 errors

• canonical.testing.layers.ZopelessDatabaseLayer tests: Ran 178 tests with 0 failures and 0 errors

• lp.codehosting.tests.test_acceptance.SSHServerLayer tests: Ran 46 tests with 0 failures and 0 errors

• zope.testing.testrunner.layer.UnitTests tests: Ran 1348 tests with 8 failures and 0 errors

  • librarianformatter_noca.txt: Py2.5 differences in traceback formatting
  • test_helpers.make_test_tarball_2: odd discrepancy

  • test_raising_with_unprintable_exception (canonical.launchpad.webapp.tests.test_errorlog.TestErrorReportingUtility): looks benign

  • lib/lp/translations/utilities/tests/test_xpi_properties_format.py: several escaping issues