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2015-10-14 0:14 GMT+09:00 Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com>:
> Excerpts from Thomas Goirand's message of 2015-10-13 12:38:00 +0200:
>> On 10/12/2015 11:09 PM, Steve Baker wrote:
>> > On 13/10/15 02:05, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> >>
>> >> BTW, the same applies for tablib which is in a even more horrible state
>> >> that makes it impossible to package with Py3 support. But tablib could
>> >> be removed from our (build-)dependency list, if someone cares about
>> >> re-writing cliff-tablib, which IMO wouldn't be that much work. Doug, how
>> >> many beers shall I offer you for that work? :)
>> >>
>> > Regarding tablib, cliff has had its own table formatter for some time,
>> > and now has its own json and yaml formatters. I believe the only tablib
>> > formatter left is the HTML one, which likely wouldn't be missed if it
>> > was just dropped (or it could be simply reimplemented inside cliff).
>> >
>> > If the cliff deb depends on cliff-tablib
>>
>> It does.
>
> That dependency is backwards. cliff-tablib should depend on cliff. Cliff
> does not need cliff-tablib, but cliff-tablib is only useful if cliff is
> installed.
>
>> And also the below packages have a build-dependency on
>> cliff-tablib:
>>
>> - python-neutronclient
>> - python-openstackclient
>>
>> python-openstackclient also has a runtime depends on cliff-tablib.
>
> Now that we have a cliff with the formatters provided by tablib, we can
> update those dependencies to remove cliff-tablib. Someone just needs to
> follow through on that with patches to the requirements files for the
> clients.

In neutronclient, we have cliff-tablib is test-requirements.txt,
but it is actually unnecessary now.
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/234334/

Akihiro

>
>>
>> The problem is that *many* packages have (build-)depends on
>> neutronclient and openstackclient, so it blocks Py3 support for them as
>> well.
>>
>> So we need to address this.
>>
>> > I would recommend removing that
>> > dependency and just stop packaging cliff-tablib.
>>
>> Can I just drop cliff-tablib from cliff, and be done with it? Really?
>>
>> I am hereby announcing that I'm paying a beer in Tokyo to anyone who
>> helps fixing this mess, so we get rid of tablib. :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
>>
>
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