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On Nov 10, 2015 16:48, "Clint Byrum" <clint at fewbar.com> wrote:
>
> Excerpts from Morgan Fainberg's message of 2015-11-10 15:31:16 -0800:
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi there!
> > >
> > > All of Liberty would be migrating from Sid to Testing (which is the
> > > pre-condition for an upload to offical Debian backports) if I didn't
> > > have a really annoying situation with the repoze.{what,who} packages.
I
> > > feel like I could get some help from the Python export folks here.
> > >
> > > What is it about?
> > > =================
> > >
> > > Here's the dependency chain:
> > >
> > > - Keystone depends on pysaml2.
> > > - Pysaml2 depends on python-repoze.who >=2, which I uploaded to Sid.
> > > - python-repoze.what depends on python-repoze.who < 1.99
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, python-repoze.who doesn't migrate to Debian Testing
> > > because it would make python-repoze.what broken.
> > >
> > > To make the situation worse, python-repoze.what build-depends on
> > > python-repoze.who-testutil, which itself doesn't work with
> > > python-repoze.who >= 2.
> > >
> > > Note: repoze.who-testutil is within the package
> > > python-repoze.who-plugins who also contains 4 other plugins which are
> > > all broken with repoze.who >= 2, but the others could be dropped from
> > > Debian easily). We can't drop repoze.what completely, because there's
> > > turbogears2 and another package who needs it.
> > >
> > > There's no hope from upstream, as all of these seem to be abandoned
> > > projects.
> > >
> > > So I'm a bit stuck here, helpless, and I don't know how to fix the
> > > situation... :(
> > >
> > > What to fix?
> > > ============
> > > Make repoze.what and repoze.who-testutil work with repoze.who >= 2.
> > >
> > > Call for help
> > > =============
> > > I'm a fairly experienced package maintainer, but I still consider
myself
> > > a poor Python coder (probably because I spend all my time packaging
> > > rather than programming in Python: I know a way better other
programing
> > > languages).
> > >
> > > So I would enjoy a lot having some help here, also because my time is
> > > very limited and probably better invested working on packages to
assist
> > > the whole OpenStack project, rather than upstream code on some weirdo
> > > dependencies that I don't fully understand.
> > >
> > > So, would anyone be able to invest a bit of time, and help me fix the
> > > problems with repoze.what / repoze.who in Debian? If you can help,
> > > please ping me on IRC.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Thomas Goirand (zigo)
> > >
> > >
> > It looks like pysaml2 might be ok with < 1.99 of repoze.who here:
> > https://github.com/rohe/pysaml2/blob/master/setup.py#L30
> >
> > I admit I haven't tested it, but the requirements declaration doesn't
seem
> > to enforce the need for > 2. If that is in-fact the case that > 2 is
> > needed, we are a somewhat of an impass with dead/abandonware holding us
> > ransom. I'm not sure what the proper handling of that ends up being in
the
> > debian world.
>
> repoze.who doesn't look abandoned to me, so it is just repoze.what:
>
> https://github.com/repoze/repoze.who/commits/master
>
> who's just not being released (does anybody else smell a Laurel and
> Hardy skit coming on?)

Seriously!

>
> Also, this may have been something temporary, that then got left around
> because nobody bothered to try the released versions:
>
>
https://github.com/repoze/repoze.what/commit/b9fc014c0e174540679678af99f04b01756618de
>
> note, 2.0a1 wasn't compatible.. but perhaps 2.2 would work fine?
>
>

Def something to try out. If this is still an outstanding issue next week
(when I have a bit more time) I'll see what I can do to test out the
variations.

--Morgan
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