[web-team] script usage & failure modes

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Heather Stern (star at starshine.org):

> Moin needs python 2.3 or better.

After upgrade to Gutsy Gibbon (7.10), it has Python 2.5.

You're no doubt familiar with the way Debian (and *buntu) tends, over
time, to accumulate redundant families of packages for Python, for Perl,
for gcc, and some others.  That is, you wake up one day and look at 
"dpkg -l | less", and you see Python 2.2 _and_ 2.3 _and_ 2.4 _and_ 2.5
packages.  Unlike with RH and similar, Debian/*buntu assumes that if you 
didn't say to remove them, you must have wanted them, and maintenance
never purges them for you.

During quite a few hours I spent whacking the installed package set down
to reasonable size, I fixed exactly those sorts of situations, and
package count is now down to 211.  _However_, any special needs for
specific package versions, if they ever arise, can always be accomodated
(and should get documented inside /usr/local/src, please).

By the way, svn isn't quite as bad at excessive library dependencies as
I remembered -- but still is a bit pudgy.  Requires these libs packages:
libapr1 libaprutil1 libneon26 libpq5 libsvn1