Re: Problem migrating from South to Django migrations for Linux distributions

Not CCing Django-Developers, my emails bounce, possibly because I am not subscribed. Feel free to repost if you feel it might help.

On 25 July 2014 18:04, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> wrote:

Applications that depend on South and have different upstream versions
in Debian 7 and Debian 8 are:
http://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-django-voting
http://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-django-threadedcomments
http://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-django-reversion
http://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-django-picklefield
http://tracker.debian.org/pkg/bcfg2

There are several libraries that we might need to watch out for with Django migrations:

In sid, if I do "apt-file search '/migrations/'" and rule out anything that doesn't look like Django migrations, I get:

bcfg2-server

lava-server

python-django-celery

python-django-extensions

python-django-guardian

python-django-longerusername

python-django-oauth-plus

python-django-reversion

python-django-sitetree

python-django-social-auth

python-django-taggit

python-django-threadedcomments

python-django-voting

python-djangorestframework

python-kombu

python-tastypie

some of these are not in wheezy, so I removed them. I also removed python-kombu, as the migrations haven't changed.

bcfg2-server

python-django-celery

python-django-reversion

python-django-social-auth

python-django-threadedcomments

python-django-voting

python-tastypie

python-kombu was a concern when I saw it (openstack uses it), but there are no new migrations from wheezy, so it looks ok to me.

If I lookup reverse depends on these, I don't get anything substantial:

Reverse Depends:

bcfg2-web

python-django-celery

Reverse Depends:

python-django-reversion

Reverse Depends:

python-django-social-auth

Reverse Depends:

python-django-threadedcomments

Reverse Depends:

python-django-voting

Reverse Depends:

python-tastypie

Reverse Depends:

python-django-picklefield appears to not have any migrations, so is ok.

python-django-taggit appears to be the only package in Debian that comes with a "south_migrations" directory - it appears to be Django 1.7 compliant already; it wasn't in wheezy.

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Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>