[MIR] python-invoke

[James Page]

[MIR] python-invoke

[Availability]
Currently in universe.

[Rationale]
Several OpenStack projects use paramiko for ssh connections. Invoke is a dependency of paramiko.

[Security]
No security history.

[Quality Assurance]
Package works out of the box with no prompting. There are no major bugs in Ubuntu and there are no major bugs in Debian.
Somewhat concerning but seems there's a volunteer to maintain in Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=964718
Unit tests are not run during build.

[Dependencies]
All are in main.

[Standards Compliance]
FHS and Debian Policy compliant.

[Maintenance]
Python package that the OpenStack Team will take care of.

[Background]
Invoke's main use is in setting up a collection of task functions and executing them. In particular, paramiko uses invoke to execute a local shell command.

[James Page (james-page)]

I started on the MIR review for invoke and then realised that its actually just a Recommends rather than a hard dependency. Maybe demoting to a Suggests might be a better idea - python-invoke has tests but its not possible to execute them due to a number of other missing dependencies.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

I had a look into running the test suite of python-invoke. Result:

python-invoke uses pytest-relaxed which is not packaged yet -> ITP for pytest-relaxed: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1008768 -> pytest-relaxed does not support pytest 5 and 6: https://github.com/bitprophet/pytest-relaxed/issues/12 -> bug report for python-invoke: https://github.com/pyinvoke/invoke/issues/797

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

There has been not further update for too long, for now we consider it invalid.
Feel free to re-open if there is effort backing it up and motivation to bring it to main.