[Bug 1861268] Re: [MIR] jeepney

[James Page]

Reflecting on this situation I think if we where not developing for an
LTS release, having two python DBUS interfaces in main for an interim
release period of 9 months might be acceptable; but we're not in that
position so I'd suggest that we stick with the older python3-dbus based
secretstorage for 20.04.

This means we only have a single DBUS interface to support for an LTS
(5/10 years) and we give the other upstream projects a bit more time to
make the switch (maybe with some nudging/recommendation).

We can review again at the start of the 20.10 development cycle to see
how things have progressed.

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Title:
  [MIR] jeepney

Status in jeepney package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in python-keystoneclient package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in python-novaclient package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in python-openstackclient package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Availability]
  Available in Ubuntu Focal.

  [Rationale]
  python-secretstorage, which is in main because it's a dependency of python-keyring, has been using dbus-python for a long time. However, as dbus-python's README says, it “might not be the best D-Bus binding for you to use”:
  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus-python/blob/dbus-python-1.2.16/README#L13

  Also, the Freedesktop wiki lists dbus-python among “Obsolete libraries”:
  https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DBusBindings/#obsoletelibraries

  So the new release of secretstorage is now using jeepney, a
  lightweight pure Python D-Bus implementation instead of dbus-python
  (which was written in C).

  [Security]
  No security history.

  [Quality assurance]
  Upstream has a test suite, and it is being run during package build:
  https://launchpadlibrarian.net/459048962/buildlog_ubuntu-focal-amd64.jeepney_0.4.2-1_BUILDING.txt.gz

  There is also an autopkgtest:
  http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/jeepney

  [Dependencies]
  Depends: python3:any
  Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12), dh-python, python3-all, python3-pytest, python3-sphinx, python3-sphinx-rtd-theme, python3-testpath

  [Standards compliance]
  Standards-Version: 4.4.1

  [Maintenance]
  Maintained upstream in https://gitlab.com/takluyver/jeepney.

  Maintained in Debian by me under the umbrella of Debian Python modules
  team. Maintenance is very simple, debian/rules is just 18 lines.

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