[tryton-debian] Bug#788082: congruity: Please use a maintained soap library instead of deprecated python-suds.

[Mathias Behrle]

* Scott Talbert: " Re: Bug#788082: congruity: Please use a maintained soap
  library instead of deprecated python-suds." (Mon, 8 Jun 2015 20:45:23 -0400
  (EDT)):

Hi Scott,

> On Mon, 8 Jun 2015, Mathias Behrle wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> > Please consider to migrate your package to use a maintained soap
> > library (like pysimplesoap, at the time of writing in NEW).
> 
> Hi Mathias,
> 
> I'm the upstream maintainer of congruity.  Unfortunately, porting 
> congruity to use pysimplesoap would not be an easy effort (and not 
> something that I would expect a Debian maintainer to do).

Perhaps py3porters-devel 
 
> Looking at the pysimplesoap project, I'm not convinced it really is 
> maintained all that much better than suds-jurko.  It looks like the last 
> "production" release, 1.10, was in 2013.  There were preview releases in 
> 2014 (1.11, 1.12, 1.13), and 1.16 in 2015 (but with no release notes for 
> this one).  The last commit in git was about 2 months ago.  There are 
> quite a few PR's and issues that haven't been responded to in the past 
> couple of months.

My experience so far is quite different. While Mariano Reingart, the maintainer
of pysimplesoap, is responding (e.g. [0]), there is no such sign on suds-jurko.
Citing from a previous mail:

> The current state is:
> 
> - suds (as the original package from fedora) has a dead upstream
> - suds-jurko (fork of the original package ported to py3) meanwhile seems to
>   have a dead (or at least overloaded and unresponsive) upstream, too.
>   Last release: 2014-01-24
>   Last commit: 2014-12-25

> Given all that, perhaps I will look into maintaining suds-jurko in Debian 
> myself.

Just be aware, that you are likely to turn into upstream for the
said project. Current suds was already prepared to use suds-jurko as a drop-in
(but not used for the said reasons), and there was another initiative by Lionel
Elie Mamane, who meanwhile agrees to not push suds-jurko into main.

Best,
Mathias

[0] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/soap/2015-April/thread.html
[1] https://people.debian.org/~lmamane/suds/

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