Re: Bug#714896: Python 3 as default
I have been actively working on the python-debianbts part of this. I commented on #732644
but not CC the list at the time. The python-debianbts module depends on python-soappy.
There seems to only be one SOAP module currently working on python3. It is a fork of suds
which is not packaged for Debian currently (it should probably replace our existing
python-suds since upstream is dead) [1].
My work has been on porting python-debianbts to suds. This is made a lot more difficult
because the Debian BTS does not expose a WSDL file. I tested some WSDL generation modules
on the debbugs code base, but ran into limitations in those modules that would not work
with the debbugs code.
Luckily, I did find someone had done a good chunk of the work on making a WSDL for debbugs
[2]. I have some functions ported to suds using this WSDL file. The get_versions and
get_usertags methods are not included in the WSDL, and I have yet to figure out how to
properly form them. In the response for get_usertags, the usertag comes back as the name
of an XML element, rather than the string value of a element.
I am concerned that python-debianbts is not under team maintence. I have already put a
good deal of work into this already and there is potential that the maintainer will not
have any interest in accepting patches to port the module to python3.
Regards,
Jordan Metzmeier
[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/suds-jurko/0.4.1.jurko.3
[2] https://github.com/jwiegley/debbugs-gnu/blob/master/Debbugs.wsdl
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