[Twisted-Python] Python3 twistd daemon for Ubuntu 14.04 alternatives

[Dave Curtis]

Hi, so for my first post to the list I am going to ask a somewhat lame
question.  Apologies if this is not the right list -- clues welcome.

I am doing a deploy of a server written in Python3 on Ubuntu 14.04.  (14.04
for various reasons that are uninteresting to the list but DevOps has
good/historical/hysterical reasons...)

So my problem is that while my protocol stack spins up very nicely and
trivially easy using the twistd daemon, the standard python3-twisted
package for 14.04 is waaaay behind and doesn't include twistd (!), and I
haven't found a good backport.  I'd also like to avoid doing things that
make life hard for DevOps, such as pip3 installing and risking a package
manager fight.

So some options:
- Is there a reliable backport of the python3-twisted package for 14.04?
Google is failing me on that one.
- All I need is the most basic twistd functionality.  Perhaps I should spin
up my own by snarfing the code out of the twisted source repo.  I can
package this with my stuff temporarily and get on with life.  Clues to the
relevant parts of the repo welcome, I haven't poked around much in Twisted
sources so need a road map.
- Perhaps I should create my own backport for Ubuntu 14.04 of the current
python3-twisted .deb.  (This is probably not the right list to ask, but I'm
happy to dereference a pointer.)

This is a short-term problem for me, we are transitioning to 16.04 soon,
but the process is driven by other parts of the software stack. So I don't
want to over-invest.  I'm looking for a reasonable band-aid.

Thanks!
-dave
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