Bug#958641: Bug#958114: can not use because commonutil can not be imported

[Christian Kastner]

On 2020-04-24 12:37, Tiziano Zito wrote:
>> In any case, the official version has certainly seen far more widespread
>> use than the PyPI version (the former being around for a decade, the
>> latter for a few months), so we need to be aware that changing this
>> might break a lot of existing code out there...

In the end, I filed a GH issue [1] with the PyPI version of the package,
as I believe that this is best worked out between the two upstreams.
There's no benefit for us being the intermediary.

As to the problem itself, my immediate fix will be to patch smvutil to
include commonutil, for the following reasons:

  1. That's what svmutil does, internally - it pulls * from the
     communutil namespace to the svmutil namespace

  2. commonutils is mentioned only in passing in the docs, so I
     don't believe that many people will be depending on it.

[1] https://github.com/ocampor/libsvm/issues/6