[Python-modules-team] Bug#736256: python-statsd: Wrong version of python-statsd in package!

[David McBride]

Package: python-statsd
Version: 2.0.1-1
Severity: grave

The python-statsd package builds the contents of the wrong github repository.
(Or, at the very least, it is building a different repository to the one referred
to in the package description.)

Practically, this manifests as a substantial reduction in functionality, for example
making it unusable for use with the Diamond metrics collection tool.  
(Currently unpackaged in Debian.)

The upstream Homepage is reported to be:

  https://github.com/WoLpH/python-statsd

.... which is consistent with the description provided in the package itself, as well
as the description of the python module listing at:

  https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-statsd

However, the contents of the package itself originate from an unrelated repository:

  https://github.com/jsocol/pystatsd/

Similarly, the debian/watch file refers to:

  http://githubredir.debian.net/github/jsocol/pystatsd /v(.+)\.tar\.gz

There is an inconsistency here.  I would suggest that the WoLpH repository might
be the more useful one to have packaged.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages python-statsd depends on:
ii  python  2.7.5-5

python-statsd recommends no packages.

python-statsd suggests no packages.

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