Bug 189399

Right, so it's in avahi-tools package already, but perhaps it should be an
'avahi-python' RPM instead?

The avahi-python modules seem to be really developed purely as a library for 
use by the avahi-tools, most of which are python scripts. 

I'm not sure it really makes sense to distribute the avahi-python modules
in a separate RPM, as if they were intended to be a general purpose python
API to avahi services, beyond providing limited services to the tools -
there is no documentation for them for a start.

Unless there is a really good reason why we need the avahi-python modules
in a separate RPM, I think they should remain part of avahi-tools - is there ? 

I can't see a good reason to ship these python scripts separately to avahi-tools -
if you disagree, please re-open and provide a reason - closing out.

Reopening, I have a good reason. There are some programs out there which make use of avahi python files. One good example is Gajim (packaged as gajim). If I want to install gajim, it currently requires avahi-ui-tools, i.e. I end up with three extra icons in my system menu (Avahi SSH Server/VNC Server/Zeroconf Browser). I don't really want those tools to be there, I don't use them and they just clutter my application menu.

If you look at Debian, they have also separated python files from UI tools:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/i386/avahi-ui-utils/filelist
http://packages.debian.org/sid/i386/python-avahi/filelist

Please create python-avahi in Fedora as well, so that applications don't have to pull UI tools needlessly.

Totem's airplay plugin have requirements on avahi's Python bindings too.

I wanted to use http://www.avahi.org/wiki/Examples/PythonPublishAlias but it failed to 'import avahi', which led me to this bug. Please package the python bindings separately.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19

Not urgent but it would improve testing of:
http://james.fedorapeople.org/yum/avahi/

Mandos also requires the avahi python binding. There is no official Mandos package for Fedora yet but I am trying to contribute one.
Requireing avahi-ui-tools is currently the only way to get it to work, and that pulls in quite a list of other packages:

Installing:
 avahi-ui-tools
Installing for dependencies:
 at-spi2-atk
 at-spi2-core
 avahi-glib
 avahi-ui-gtk3
 cairo-gobject
 colord-libs
 fltk
 gtk3
 libXevie
 libglade2
 libgusb
 pycairo
 pygtk2
 pygtk2-libglade
 tigervnc
 tigervnc-icons
 tigervnc-license

The assignee seems to no longer exist, for some reason the field wasn't reset. Trying to do that now.

This is fixed with avahi 0.6.31-36. A python-avahi and python3-avahi packages are provided.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1260432 ***