[openstack-dev] Removing unused dependencies like:'discover' module from all projects

Matt Riedemann mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Aug 27 17:21:17 UTC 2015



On 8/27/2015 6:26 AM, Chandan kumar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am packaging 'discover' module <
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1251951 > for RDO.
> Since, this module is not maintained yet as per this
> http://code.google.com/p/unittest-ext/
> and this module is used as a test-dependencies in all the projects as
> per 'openstack-requirements' module <
> https://github.com/openstack/requirements/blob/master/global-requirements.txt#L246
>  > and i have a discussion with lifeless regarding that
> <https://github.com/testing-cabal/unittest-ext/issues/96 >
>
> and he has proposed a fix on that: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/217046/
>
> Can someone confirms whether it is obsolete or not?
> if it is obsolete, can we remove if it does not break any project?
> so that i can create a bug to track it.
>
> Needs input on that.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chandan Kumar
>
>
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The server projects dropped python 2.6 support in kilo, but the 
libraries still run py26 jobs for compat still.  So while it's probably 
OK to remove discover as a test dependency for the server projects, I'd 
only remove it for libraries if they are no longer supporting python < 2.7.

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann




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