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tickcount package

Please consider removing tickcount from Ubuntu

Bug #1740160 reported by Jeremy Bícha
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tickcount (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

tickcount has no reverse dependencies in Ubuntu and was never packaged in Debian.

It is held in main in the platform.bionic supported-misc-servers seed
python-tickcount with this note:

 * python-tickcount #ChuckShort - server-lucid-canonical-application-support

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

tickcount is probably unportable to Python 3 (https://bugs.python.org/issue19199). As far as I know it's only there for the benefit of Launchpad, and we can manage via a PPA or a virtualenv, so you shouldn't consider us as blocking its removal. I'll also look at removing our dependency on it.

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Robie Basak (racb) wrote :

I see no issue removing this from an ~ubuntu-server perspective, given Colin's comments above. Dustin or David: can you provide a +1?

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote :

I'm +1 for demoting to universe. I don't yet see enough justification for removing it from Ubuntu entirely, though.

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Nish Aravamudan (nacc) wrote :

@kirkland: accumulated justifications:

1) no python3 support (not possible? per c#1) -- which implies we'd remove it eventually anyways

2) no reverse-depends (no consumers)

3) not in Debian, so it's purely technical debt?

I haven't looked to see if there have been many/any bugs over the years, but IMO, the above is enough for removing it.

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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote :

For now we already agree on demotion from main - and cleaning up the seeds would be a prereq for the removal anyway. So I'll prep the former and discuss the latter sometime this week.

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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote :

Seed change done, should be demoted (but not removed) on the next runs.
No need for Colin to move to a ppa as it will stay in universe.

If this shall be upgraded to really become a full removal please let us know.

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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote :

demotion complete.

Changed in tickcount (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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Robie Basak (racb) wrote :

With the Python 2 removals making progress, this is now a candidate for removal from the Ubuntu archive entirely. If you object, please let us know here.

Changed in tickcount (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Triaged
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Launchpad no longer uses it as of https://code.launchpad.net/~cjwatson/launchpad/+git/launchpad/+merge/373764, so we no longer need to care.

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

Removing packages from focal:
 tickcount 0.1-0ubuntu20 in focal
  python-tickcount 0.1-0ubuntu20 in focal amd64
  python-tickcount 0.1-0ubuntu20 in focal arm64
  python-tickcount 0.1-0ubuntu20 in focal armhf
  python-tickcount 0.1-0ubuntu20 in focal ppc64el
  python-tickcount 0.1-0ubuntu20 in focal s390x
Comment: Ubuntu-specific, python2-only, unused; LP: #1740160
1 package successfully removed.

Changed in tickcount (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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