[tryton-debian] Bug#788087: python-profitbricks-client: Please use a maintained soap library instead of deprecated python-suds.

[Mathias Behrle]

* Benjamin Drung: " Re: Bug#788087: python-profitbricks-client: Please use a
  maintained soap library instead of deprecated python-suds." (Thu, 02 Jul 2015
  19:39:17 +0200):

Hi Benjamin,

> Am Montag, den 08.06.2015, 14:03 +0200 schrieb Mathias Behrle:
> > Package: python-profitbricks-client
> > Severity: important
> > User: maintainers at debian.tryton.org
> > Usertags: migrate-suds
> > 
> > Dear maintainer of python-profitbricks-client,
> > 
> > your package is listed as a Reverse Depend of the python-suds
> > package, which is now deprecated due to long time missing upstream
> > maintenance as well as missing compatibility for Python3 (#783029,
> > #774948, #782970). It is planned to remove python-suds before the
> > release of stretch.
> 
> suds-jurko seems to be more or less maintained (last upstream commit was
> yesterday, but the last release is from 2014-01-24) and it supports
> Python3.
> 
> > Please consider to migrate your package to use a maintained soap
> > library (like pysimplesoap, at the time of writing in NEW).
> 
> Instead of porting python-profitbricks-client, I would prefer to take
> over the maintenance of suds for at least the stretch release and follow
> the suds-jurko releases. Some time ago, I already made sure that
> python-profitbricks-client works with the Python3 version of suds-jurko.
> What do you think?

Basically I can not add much to #783029. Indeed there is some recent action from
the maintainer side. All efforts to use suds-jurko as a drop-in replacement (or
separate package by Lionel) were done, but neither me (nor Lionel who wanted to
do the same as you want to do now) finally wanted to turn into a definite
upstream for suds-jurko. For me things are quite unchanged, but perhaps you
are lucky to be able to revive the contact with Jurko so you can get some
feedback about his future plans.

Finally I only can recommend to evaluate the porting effort of
python-profitbricks-client (and possibly other rdepends of suds) vs. the
maintenance effort of suds-jurko. Bug reports filed against rdepends of suds
are available at [0]. The result of above said evaluation could of course be
influenced by the porting effort needed by other rdepends. Basically they/we
all will be thankful, if there is a maintained suds alternative available.


Cheers,
Mathias


[0]
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=migrate-suds;users=maintainers@debian.tryton.org


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