Can I completely remove an issue and all related
material? I thought roundup-admin might do this, but it
traceback'ed. I am using a MySQL backend. In my
environment, it's important to be able to completely
remove inappropriate material that was posted
accidently or maliciously.

bash-2.05b$ /usr/local/roundup/bin/roundup-admin retire
issue3
Enter tracker home: /var/round/trackers/babel
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/roundup/bin/roundup-admin", line 6, in ?
    run()
  File
"/usr/local/roundup-0.6.2/lib/python2.2/site-packages/roundup/scripts/roundup_admin.py",
line 34, in run
    sys.exit(tool.main())
  File
"/usr/local/roundup-0.6.2/lib/python2.2/site-packages/roundup/admin.py",
line 1402, in main
    ret = self.run_command(args)
  File
"/usr/local/roundup-0.6.2/lib/python2.2/site-packages/roundup/admin.py",
line 1299, in run_command
    tracker = roundup.instance.open(self.tracker_home)
  File
"/usr/local/roundup-0.6.2/lib/python2.2/site-packages/roundup/instance.py",
line 102, in open
    return Tracker(tracker_home)
  File
"/usr/local/roundup-0.6.2/lib/python2.2/site-packages/roundup/instance.py",
line 34, in __init__
    self.select_db = self._load_python('select_db.py')
AttributeError: Tracker instance has no attribute
'_load_python'
bash-2.05b$ 

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Erm, that code shouldn't be run for any current trackers. Did you by any 
chance remove the "dbinit.py" file from your tracker home? 
 
In answer to your question (which belongs on the roundup-users list, 
please :), yes you may retire any issue. You may never "delete" 
anything from the roundup database, as it might result in broken 
references. There is no "recursive" retirement option yet, though one 
could be written pretty easily. 

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For whatever reason, it's working now.

bash-2.05b$ ls -al
total 120
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     babel-bugs     4096 Nov  7 08:47 .
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Nov  5 10:39 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     babel-bugs     5268 Nov  6 15:00
config.py
-rw-r--r--    1 root     babel-bugs     5280 Nov  5 15:03
config.py~
-rw-r--r--    1 root     babel-bugs     1803 Nov  5 20:12
config.pyo
drwxrwxr-x    4 babel-bugs babel-bugs     4096 Nov  5 13:56 db
-rw-r--r--    1 root     babel-bugs     7837 Apr 16  2003
dbinit.py
-rw-r--r--    1 root     babel-bugs     4611 Nov  5 11:17
dbinit.pyo
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     babel-bugs     4096 Nov  5 13:53
detectors
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     babel-bugs     4096 Nov  5 10:39 html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     babel-bugs    13216 Apr 16  2003
htmlbase.py
-rw-r--r--    1 root     babel-bugs    13372 Nov  5 20:13
htmlbase.pyo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     babel-bugs     1113 Apr 16  2003
__init__.py
-rw-r--r--    1 root     babel-bugs      338 Nov  5 11:17
__init__.pyo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     babel-bugs     1568 Apr 16  2003
interfaces.py
-rw-r--r--    1 root     babel-bugs     1279 Nov  5 11:17
interfaces.pyo
drwxr-xr-x    2 babel-bugs babel-bugs     4096 Nov  7 09:30 log
-rw-r--r--    1 root     babel-bugs      115 Nov  5 10:39
select_db.py
-rw-r--r--    1 root     babel-bugs      334 Nov  5 11:17
select_db.pyo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     babel-bugs      345 Apr 16  2003
TEMPLATE-INFO.txt
bash-2.05b$ /usr/local/roundup/bin/roundup-admin retire issue3
Enter tracker home: /var/roundup/trackers/babel
bash-2.05b$