python-django update to Django-1.6

[Simo Sorce]

On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 11:24 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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> On 11/25/2013 03:07 AM, Matthias Runge wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > recently, I saw a few requests to update python-django to
> > Django-1.6, the corresponding bug is [1].
> > 
> > As there are quite a few changes, I'd expect this update to be
> > harmful, at least - python-django-openstack-auth -
> > openstack-dashboard
> > 
> > will break, and won't even build any more (because they also
> > execute sanity checks during build).
> > 
> > So, the current plan is, to fix both packages upstream and then to 
> > update python-django to Django 1.6 in rawhide. I'd expect this to
> > happen within the next two weeks and I'd update python-django to
> > Django-1.6 around Dec 16th.
> > 
> > Because of bad timing, we won't have Django-1.6 in f20.
> > 
> 
> This is kind of why I keep coming back to: "Why do we have
> python-django at all?" I don't really see any reason why we shouldn't
> kill off the python-django package and just carry 'python-django15'
> and 'python-django16' packages with a conflict.
> 
> The number of incompatibilities between releases is such that I don't
> think we really want to be forcing upgrades on other packages at all.
> We should just be carrying whichever two versions are supported by
> upstream at any given time. Upstream is very good about maintaining
> bugfixes and security fixes in both supported streams.

+1 by changing version the current way, the only ting we can guarantee
is a lot of broken packages all the time.

Simo.

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