[Jessie] eJabberd appliance won't build due to Speeqe issues

[JedMeister]

conf.d/main is failing on this line:

# $WEBROOT/manage.py syncdb --noinput

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/www/django/speeqeweb/manage.py", line 3, in <module>
    from django.core.management import execute_manager
ImportError: cannot import name execute_manager

A little research suggests that this is related to a Django changes

execute_manager was deprecated in django 1.4 and was removed entirely in django 1.6. Theoretically execute_manager can be replaced with execute_from_command_line so we end up with this:

#!/usr/bin/env python
#django generated file
from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
try:
    import settings # Assumed to be in the same directory.
except ImportError:
    import sys
    sys.stderr.write("Error: Can't find the file 'settings.py' in the directory containing %r. It appears you've customized things.\nYou'll have to run django-admin.py, passing it your settings module.\n(If the file settings.py does indeed exist, it's causing an ImportError somehow.)\n" % __file__)
    sys.exit(1)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    execute_from_command_line(settings)

But that doesn't resolve the issue as I now get:

# $WEBROOT/manage.py syncdb --noinput

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/www/django/speeqeweb/manage.py", line 12, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(settings)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 384, in execute_from_command_line
    utility = ManagementUtility(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 182, in __init__
    self.prog_name = os.path.basename(self.argv[0])
TypeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__getitem__'

[JedMeister]

Issue also reported upstream...

[JedMeister]

I haven't heard anything back from Speeqe upstream and I assume that the update would be non-trivial so I am considering replacing Speeqe with CandyChat...

[JedMeister]

Django 1.4 is supported until Oct 2015 so perhaps we may look at retaining Speeqe at least until then...

[JedMeister]

ejabberd appliance currently deferred from v14.0 release so retargeting to "on ice"

[JedMeister]

closing as ejabberd appliance has been discontinued