[Python-modules-team] Bug#575897: python-transmissionrpc: Package is incompatible with repository version of the main Transmission app's RPC

[AllenS]

Package: python-transmissionrpc
Version: 0.3-2
Severity: important

The squeeze version of python-transmissionrpc uses transmission RPC version 1.7x

The current version of transmission in squeeze is 1.92 which uses the newer trunk version - http://trac.transmissionbt.com/browser/trunk/doc/rpc-spec.txt

Unfortunately there has been a breaking change in the spec. Many attributes have been moved into the 'trackerStats' array - e.g. seederCount.

The following script will demonstrate the problem:

***
#!/usr/bin/python

import transmissionrpc

tc = transmissionrpc.Client('localhost', port=9091, user='transmission', password='transmission')

torrent = tc.info(1)[1]

print torrent.trackerStats[0]['seederCount']
***

Actual output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./transmission-control", line 9, in <module>
    print torrent.trackerStats[0]['seederCount']
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/transmissionrpc/transmission.py", line 86, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError('No attribute %s' % name)
AttributeError: No attribute trackerStats

Expected output:
<an integer>

I have tried my test script with version 4.0 of transmissionrpc it works correctly.

Regards
AllenS


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-486
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages python-transmissionrpc depends on:
ii  python                        2.5.4-9    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-simplejson             2.0.9-2    simple, fast, extensible JSON enco
ii  python-support                1.0.7      automated rebuilding support for P

Versions of packages python-transmissionrpc recommends:
ii  transmission-daemon           1.91-1     lightweight BitTorrent client (dae

python-transmissionrpc suggests no packages.

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