This page is a place to collect notes written for and by people living on the bleeding edge and developing Launchpad on Karmic.
It has also become slightly co-opted as a place to manage the migration towards compatibility with the newer Python versions which Karmic prefers by default.
PPA Dependencies
The Launchpad PPA now contains a complete set of packages for the Karmic series.
Launchpad on Karmic with Python 2.4
It works pretty much, but there's an unresolved issue wherein setuptools' way of supporting Python namespace packages tends to leave you using the lazr.* packages installed into the system site-packages directory, despite the Launchpad buildout's best efforts.
This manifests as the following test failures:
Problems importing lazr.enum:
lp.codehosting.puller.tests.test_scheduler.TestPullerMasterIntegration.test_mirror
lp.codehosting.puller.tests.test_scheduler.TestPullerMasterIntegration.test_mirror_with_destination_self_locked
lp.codehosting.puller.tests.test_acceptance.TestBranchPuller.test_hosted_branch_stacked_on_mirrored_branch
lp.codehosting.puller.tests.test_acceptance.TestBranchPuller.test_manual_stacking
lp.codehosting.puller.tests.test_acceptance.TestBranchPuller.test_mirror_hosted_branch
lp.codehosting.puller.tests.test_acceptance.TestBranchPuller.test_mirror_hosted_loom_branch
lp.codehosting.puller.tests.test_acceptance.TestBranchPuller.test_mirror_imported_branch
lp.codehosting.puller.tests.test_acceptance.TestBranchPuller.test_mirror_mirrored_branch
lp.codehosting.puller.tests.test_acceptance.TestBranchPuller.test_mirror_private_branch
lp.codehosting.puller.tests.test_acceptance.TestBranchPuller.test_remirror_hosted_branch
lp.codehosting.puller.tests.test_acceptance.TestBranchPuller.test_stack_mirrored_branch
lp.codehosting.puller.tests.test_acceptance.TestBranchPuller.test_stack_mirrored_branch_onto_private
lp.services.scripts.tests.test_all_scripts.ScriptsTestCase.test_scripts
- Unicode vs. bytestring issues:
- eggs/launchpadlib-1.5.1-py2.4.egg/launchpadlib/docs/people.txt
- eggs/launchpadlib-1.5.1-py2.4.egg/launchpadlib/docs/toplevel.txt
Workaround: Remove the symlinks at /usr/lib/python2.{4,5}/site-packages/lazr.*-nspkg.pth and trust to the fact that Karmic's default Python is 2.6 to hopefully not break anything on your system that wanted to use them.
Moving to newer Python versions: 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 tracks lp:launchpad/stable (or occasionally devel), on a manual basis, and acts as a one-stop-shop for something that people can check out and build using Python 2.5
Remaining changes in python2.5 branch:
Changed PYTHON_VERSION in Makefiles
Changed shebang in cronscripts/*, scripts/*,
Launchpad source dependencies (sourcecode bzr trees)
The Makefiles of pygettextpo & pygpgme make direct reference to Python 2.4, you'll need to amend them appropriately.
Test Status for lp:~maxb/launchpad/python2.5@9026 based on lp:launchpad/stable@9539
canonical.testing.layers.BaseLayer tests: Ran 256 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 19 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 3192 tests with 2 failures and 0 errors
- lib/lp/bugs/doc/checkwatches-cli-switches.txt: Looks to be formatting differences in help message
- 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 8001 tests with 11 failures and 0 errors
- lib/canonical/launchpad/ftests/../doc/pagetest-helpers.txt: CDATA section introduced
- lib/canonical/launchpad/ftests/../doc/tales.txt: Exception message concerning no len() changed in Py2.5.
- lib/canonical/launchpad/ftests/../doc/unicode_csv.txt: Py2.5 behaviour change in comparison of unicode / nonunicode
- lib/canonical/launchpad/scripts/ftests/librarianformatter.txt: Spurious characters.
- lib/lp/bugs/tests/externalbugtracker-xmlrpc-transport.txt: urllib2 seems to be behaving differently concerning installed handlers
- lib/lp/registry/browser/tests/person-views.txt: bytestring vs unicode issue
lp.soyuz.scripts.tests.test_copypackage.ReUploadFileTestCase.test_re_upload_file_does_not_leak_file_descriptors - 1 != 0
- lib/lp/translations/tests/../doc/poexport-language-pack.txt: Hints at tarfile.getnames() behaviour change as seen in unit tests too
- lib/lp/translations/tests/../doc/poexport-request-productseries.txt: Ditto.
- lib/lp/translations/tests/../doc/poexport-request.txt: Ditto.
- 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 3677 tests with 1 failures and 0 errors
- lib/lp/registry/doc/teammembership.txt: Looks like benign formatting issue.
canonical.testing.layers.PageTestLayer tests: Ran 5965 tests with 7 failures and 0 errors
lib/canonical/launchpad/pagetests/feeds/xx-links.txt: No longer replaces " with ".
lib/lp/answers/stories/question-add.txt: Escaping issues as above, but with < and > too.
- lib/lp/answers/stories/question-obfuscation.txt: Ditto.
- lib/lp/bugs/stories/feeds/xx-bug-atom.txt: Looks like benign formatting issue
- lib/lp/bugs/stories/feeds/xx-bug-html.txt: Looks like benign formatting issue.
- lib/lp/bugs/stories/distribution/xx-distribution-upstream-bug-report.txt: Formatting issue.
- lib/lp/registry/tests/../stories/foaf/xx-person-working-on.txt: bytestring vs unicode 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 73 tests with 0 failures and 0 errors
canonical.testing.layers.ZopelessDatabaseLayer tests: Ran 192 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 1378 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
test_EscapedQuotesPropertyFileTest (lp.translations.utilities.tests.test_xpi_properties_format.PropertyFileFormatTestCase)
test_InvalidPropertyFileUnicodeEscape (lp.translations.utilities.tests.test_xpi_properties_format.PropertyFileFormatTestCase)
test_MultilinePropertyFileTest (lp.translations.utilities.tests.test_xpi_properties_format.PropertyFileFormatTestCase)
test_TrailingBackslashPropertyFileTest (lp.translations.utilities.tests.test_xpi_properties_format.PropertyFileFormatTestCase)
test_UnicodeEscapedPropertyFileTest (lp.translations.utilities.tests.test_xpi_properties_format.PropertyFileFormatTestCase)