python-statsd points to incorrect github page

[Prathmesh]

python-statsd is named after, and claims to provide https://github.com/WoLpH/python-statsd

If you download the tarball, the README will tell you that it's actually providing https://github.com/jsocol/pystatsd

I've made the selfsame mistake before when writing an ebuild for this package :(

The two projects are API incompatible, and should have separate packages.

[Antoine "hashar" Musso (hashar)]

There was a huge mess up in the python-statsd I originally packaged. A bug got reported on Debian BTS https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736256 namely stating:

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The upstream Homepage is reported to be:

  https://github.com/WoLpH/python-statsd

.... which is consistent with the description provided in the package itself, as well
as the description of the python module listing at:

  https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-statsd

However, the contents of the package itself originate from an unrelated repository:

  https://github.com/jsocol/pystatsd/
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I sent the fix back a year ago in a version 2.0.3-1, the file changes are:

http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/python-modules/packages/python-statsd/trunk/debian/changelog?r1=27794&r2=27793&pathrev=27794
http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/python-modules/packages/python-statsd/trunk/debian/control?r1=27794&r2=27793&pathrev=27794

That version never got released / pushed to Debian repository AFAIK.

When a new upstream version got released, Filippo Giunchedi bumped the packaged to 3.0.1-1 and published it, thus including the above fix. Reference:

 http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/python-modules?view=revision&revision=31565

It is fixed in Debian package version 3.0.1-1.

Which package are you using?

[Prathmesh (pprabhu-u)]

Ah!

So, the package availabe for vivid is 3.0.1-1 as you mentioned: http://packages.ubuntu.com/vivid/python-statsd

I was trying to use the trusty package, and the latest available is 2.0.1-1. The latest for utopic is also 2.0.1-1.

Perhaps release the fixed package for trusty as well? Or should I just pull the one from vivid?

[Antoine "hashar" Musso (hashar)]

Both Trusty and Utopic would need the new build 2.0.3-1 which fix the description and url:

http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/python-modules/packages/python-statsd/trunk/debian/control?r1=27794&r2=27793&pathrev=27794

I have no idea though how to request such a backport / update in old releases :-(

[Antoine "hashar" Musso (hashar)]

Note: you can most probably install the 3.0.1-1 package from Vivid on a Precise system. Compared to 2.x, the default client instances have been moved out of __init__ so one has to use something like:

 import statsd.defaults.env

https://github.com/jsocol/pystatsd/blob/master/CHANGES

[Prathmesh (pprabhu-u)]

For my own needs, I ended up going the python-pip --> pip install route.
So, I'm not blocked on this.

Thanks.