* Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-python/cryptography to use rust, effectively killing alpha, hppa, ia64, m68k, s390
@ 2021-02-08 18:34 99% ` Michał Górny
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From: Michał Górny @ 2021-02-08 18:34 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 12:53 -0500, Brian Evans wrote:
> On 2/8/2021 6:19 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > FYI the developers of dev-python/cryptography decided that Rust is going
> > to be mandatory for 1.5+ versions. It's unlikely that they're going to
> > provide LTS support or security fixes for the old versions.
> >
> > Since cryptography is a very important package in the Python ecosystem,
> > and it is an indirect dependency of Portage, this means that we will
> > probably have to entirely drop support for architectures that are not
> > supported by Rust.
> >
>
> For the portage indirect dependency, can it be swapped for pycurl?
>
> AFAICT, it is just used to pull GPG sigs in gemato via dev-python/requests.
I'll probably switch it to built-in urllib.request. The py3 versions
should be good enough (previously urllib3 had better TLS support than
old urllib AFAIR).
--
Best regards,
Michał Górny
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