Hi all, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Hi Bastian, > some time ago you contacted us (reportbug maintainers) and first of > all I want to apologize for this late reply ;)
No problem. > I noticed you're working a lot on reportbug-ng and what I want to > discuss here is the way to communicate with Debian BTS from a python > program (something even us are planning[1] to do in a standard way). > > You extracted the code to query BTS and forged a new package, > python-debianbts, but (there's always a "but" :) ) there already > exists a package that does it: python-btsutils. Here the rdepends of > both: > > python-btsutils > debian-bts-applet > bug-triage > python-debianbts > reportbug-ng I've also noticed python-btsutils and had a quick view on the code if I could use it instead of my own stuff. I don't know anymore why I found it wasn't quite what I needed (other features, or other return values) but eventually I decided it would be much easier to extract my own stuff to a separate lib. > Ok, there is not much difference, but I think Debian should have just > one single python API package to access BTS and for this situation > maybe concentrate on python-btsutils, that exists since more time and > has additional capabilities. Ah, now I remember that I also feared the package was (about to become) unmaintained, looking at the last upload date and the popcon value, I wasn't sure if I can really rely on this package. > What do you think about it? Does it seem reasonable to you to "merge" > python-debianbts into python-btsutils (in CC its maintainers, so we > can hear their thinking)? The idea is reasonable, I think reportbug and rng should share the same stuff under the hood. The question is how to achieve that. If we merge the libs, we need to define a stable API which all of us can rely on and the lib has to implement that. I need at least some kind of interface I can rely on to query the BTS via SOAP. Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org _______________________________________________ Reportbug-maint mailing list Reportbug-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/reportbug-maint