Bug#735522: ITP: python-pyxenstore -- Access XenStore from Python

[Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>]

On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 00:46 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 01/16/2014 04:35 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 14:16 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> >> Package: wnpp
> >> Severity: wishlist
> >> Owner: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
> >>
> >> * Package name    : python-pyxenstore
> >>   Version         : 0.0.2
> >>   Upstream Author : Chris Behrens <cbehrens@codestud.com>
> >> * URL             : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyxenstore
> >> * License         : Apache-2.0
> >>   Programming Lang: C, Python
> >>   Description     : Access XenStore from Python
> >>
> >>  This package contains the Python bindings to access the XenStore filesystem.
> >>  It may be useful from the dom0 and/or from the domU, to get / set information
> >>  about runing virtual machines.
> > 
> > Xen upstream already has a set of python bindings for libxenstore, are
> > they not packaged or are these ones better in some way?
> > 
> > Ian.
> 
> I have no idea which one is better. The only thing I know is that
> openstack-unix-guest-agents needs this, so I'm packaging it as its one
> of the dependencies. If you feel like it's a mistake to use that, feel
> free to contact the upstream authors, I would support it.

Seems a bit odd to depend on a library which had its 0.2 release in 2011
and hasn't been touched since and looks functionally pretty much
identical to the one Xen provides, but I don't care enough to argue with
the openstack folks about it.

Ian.