If you start sonata from the command-line, you might see "ZSI not found, fetching lyrics support disabled." Sonata seems to have switched from SoapPy to ZSI for lyrics fetching with version 1.3: http://sonata.berlios.de/changelog.html
Synaptic shows that the package "python-zsi" is recommended by "sonata". Once I installed python-zsi, that message disappeared, although the "Info" showed "Lyric fetching failed." for several popular songs.
So, I don't think this affects python-soappy, but I'm not sure if sonata and python-zsi work properly.
If you start sonata from the command-line, you might see "ZSI not found, fetching lyrics support disabled." Sonata seems to have switched from SoapPy to ZSI for lyrics fetching with version 1.3: http:// sonata. berlios. de/changelog. html
Synaptic shows that the package "python-zsi" is recommended by "sonata". Once I installed python-zsi, that message disappeared, although the "Info" showed "Lyric fetching failed." for several popular songs.
So, I don't think this affects python-soappy, but I'm not sure if sonata and python-zsi work properly.