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) __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev