[Python-modules-team] Bug#955000: Bug#955000: azure-cli: Autopkgtest failure in unstable

[Luca Boccassi]

Control: reassign -1 azure-cli 2.0.81+ds-3
Control: retitle -1 azure-cli: incompatible with python3-humanfriendly 8.1
Control: tags -1 pending upstream
Control: tags -1 forwarded https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/pull/12477

On Fri, 2020-03-27 at 23:52 -0400, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> > I'm really not familiar with humanfriendly - could you at least
> > give us
> > a hint on what backward incompatible changes were made?
> 
> the upgrade was rather huge, we went form 4.18 to 8.1 so there could
> be several changes.
> 
> You may want to have a look at the upstream changelog, available at:
> https://humanfriendly.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#release-8-1-2020-03-06
> 
> > More generally, how are API breaks dealt with with Python modules?
> 
> it varies greatly depending on the module: some issue
> DeprecationWarnings before removing functionalities, others are a
> more
> "bohemians" and make changes as they see fit without paying much
> attention (not saying this is the case).
> 
> Probably it's safe to say you may want to contact azure-cli upstream
> and make them aware their software doesnt work with the latest
> humanfriently package.
> 
> Regards,

Thanks.

I've checked and azure-cli was fixed a couple of days ago to support
the new version:

https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/commit/119574783193084eeedf1d8ff8cb58298bddcd5a

It seems to be compatible with both, so I'll backport the patch and
upload a new revision.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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