UCA(newton): Deprecation warnings for openstackclient due out-of-date mistralclient

[Dr. Jens Harbott]

This happens for every command and is nothing a user can fix:

# openstack --version
WARNING: openstackclient.common.utils is deprecated and will be removed after Jun 2017. Please use osc_lib.utils
openstack 3.2.0
# apt policy python-openstackclient
python-openstackclient:
  Installed: 3.2.0-0ubuntu2~cloud0
  Candidate: 3.2.0-0ubuntu2~cloud0
  Version table:
 *** 3.2.0-0ubuntu2~cloud0 500
        500 http://ubuntu-cloud.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/newton/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

This is fixed in later versions of openstackclient.

[Corey Bryant (corey.bryant)]

Thanks for the bug report.

I'm not able to reproduce this with 3.2.0-0ubuntu2~cloud0 from the newton cloud archive.

It appears that for some reason the following file is still being imported in your case:
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/openstackclient/common/utils.py

Can you run with the following and see if we can find where that's being imported?
python -m trace --trace /usr/bin/openstack --version | grep import | grep common | grep utils

[Dr. Jens Harbott (j-harbott)]

Sorry for the late reply, I have now been able to find the culprit by selectively removing all the python-*client packages that I had installed, the error comes from

python-mistralclient-1:2.0.0-3

Checking upstream code, the error also happens with the current openstackclient and that mistralclient version, it is fixed in python-mistralclient==2.1.0.

So I think the proper solution would be to install the newer client package from yakkety into the cloud archive, too.

[James Page (james-page)]

Good spot - backporting the 2.1.1 release in yakkety for newton UCA right now.