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

[Tiziano Zito]

Hi Christian,

>I eventually filed an issue with the PyPI maintainer on GitHub [1] with
>a request for them to resolve this with upstream directly, as that
>seemed to be the most appropriate course of action.

Thanks for reporting the issue. Should I open a sister-issue on libsvm upstream GitHub repo?
https://github.com/cjlin1/libsvm/issues

Maybe both upstreams need a bit of a push here ;-)

>In the meantime, to get python3-libsvm working again, the immediate fix
>will be to merge communutil into svmutil [2], with I'm afraid is the one
>not compatible with the new python3-mdp you were preparing.
> [...]

Yes, that was my plan anyway. I am quite close to python3-mdp upstream anyway, so I'll make sure to patch mdp and help to get out a new release that works in both situations. Thanks for taking care of patching libsvm: without your fix there was no way to use libsvm in Python 3 by using the Debian package ;-)

>Sorry I don't have better news.

Oh no, that's quite a good news instead.: now I can patch python3-mdp and reinstate libsvm support. I owe you a couple of beers or what ever other drinks you may prefer instead ;-)

Tiziano