[tryton-debian] python-profitbricks-client: Please use a maintained soap library instead of deprecated python-suds.

Scott Talbert swt at techie.net
Sat Aug 22 00:10:24 UTC 2015


On Fri, 21 Aug 2015, Mathias Behrle wrote:

>>> I would much prefer to use suds-jurko as drop-in replacement for our
>>> current suds, because
>>>
>>> * suds-jurko is a fork that does not break the API
>>
>> There may be some probability for this, but Jurko himself didn't give the
>> guarantee, that the changes already done didn't affect the API. Do you want to
>> provide this guarantee?
>>
>>> * the original suds upstream is dead
>>> * the original suds could reclaim the namespace if upstream was becoming
>>> active again
>>> * rdepends don't have to change anything
>>
>> rdepends should use the new upstream explicitly (see above) instead of
>> perhaps suddenly failing because of a more or less inadvertised drop-in.
>>
>>> IMO it makes no sense to rename the Debian binary package to
>>> python-suds-jurko when you still run "import suds" instead of "import
>>> suds_jurko".
>>
>> It is not renaming a package, but indeed a new package. Just like the project
>> on Pypi is different from the still existing suds.
>
> After looking again to the current state of suds-jurko (which is no more fully
> API compatible), the result of the conversation at DebConf today between
> Benjamin and me is:

Are you confirming that suds-jurko is definitely not API compatible with 
suds, or are you just stating that there is uncertainty whether it is API 
compatible?

Scott



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