Two months ago I asked for help porting python-debianbts, to Python3. Python-debianbts is a tiny little library that allows for querying Debian's bug tracking system. Since Debian's reportbug depends on it, the library is installed on ca 80% of the Debian installations. The main blocker back then was that python-debianbts …
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Please Help to Port python-debianbts to Python3
Dear Lazyweb,
I'm currently trying to find a way to port python-debianbts to Python3. Debian's standard bugreport tool reportbug depends on python-debianbts and can thus not convert to Python3 if python-debianbts does not as well. Unfortunately python-debianbts depends on SoapPy for parsing the Debian bugtracker's responses, and that library is …
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Second day in the big city and after the obligatory pancakes, scrambled eggs and bacon breakfast, I spend almost the entire day in the hacklab fixing the documentation for the debbugs SOAP interface. Thanks to Don I think I finally have theget_status …Reportbug-ng now supports complex queries
Until today you could only use reportbug-ng to query the BTS with simple queries like "packagename", "bugnumber", "tag:patch", etc. But the BTS actually supports composite queries like "severity:grave tag:patch" which returns bugreports with severity grave and a patch. The underlying Python library python-debianbts also supported this right …
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Today I was working all day on python-debianbts 1.0 and uploaded it to unstable a few minutes ago. This version breaks backwards compatibility with previous versions. I removed lots of unneeded old cruft like the HTMLStripper class needed ages ago when I was still using HTML instead of debbugs' …
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I'm currently working on an updated version of python-debianbts a Python interface to Debian's Bugtracker. The goal is to equip the Bugreport class with all available attributes delivered by the SOAP interface. The problem is, that for some attributes it is not quite clear what data they provide and in …
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Reportbug-ng and python-debianbts are now on github. Many thanks to the alioth team who provided this service before.
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