nova uses suds, which is to be removed from Debian/Ubuntu

[Thomas Goirand]

Suds is a library which isn't maintained upstream. Please switch to something else. As you may have seen, someone filed a bug against the nova package in Debian because of this:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=788081

As mentioned on the bug report: Please consider to migrate your package to use a maintained soap library (like pysimplesoap, at the time of writing in NEW).

[Doug Hellmann (doug-hellmann)]

suds is no longer listed in the requirements for nova.

[Doug Hellmann (doug-hellmann)]

It's not clear we can make this change for kilo, but since we've already done it for liberty I assume that's what you meant by opening the bug.

[Thomas Goirand (thomas-goirand)]

Hi Doug. I think you missunderstood. suds-jurko isn't more actively maintained than suds, the upstream maintainer is *ALSO* dead, so we need a better replacement. pysimplesoap is one of the possible alternatives.

[Sean Dague (sdague)]

This code is fully behind the oslo.vmware interface so should be fixed in the library

[Ben Nemec (bnemec)]

suds-jurko is still the only library I see in global-requirements, so this may need to be a broader discussion (unless oslo.vmware is the only project still using it).

[Thomas Goirand (thomas-goirand)]

There's only 2 components using suds: noslo.vmware and cinder (for one of its driver).

FYI, the Debian package python{3,}-suds is now in fact using suds-jurko, unfortunately, this one is also unmaintained upstream. I would really be nice if we could get this dependency completely out of OpenStack.

[Johannes Kulik (jkulik)]

We've started work downstream on switching olso.vmware to using zeep (https://docs.python-zeep.org/en/master/), which is still maintained and uses lxml for the XML handling giving it in our test a good performance boost: it pretty much halfed the runtime of our (simple) test script.