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On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 1:35 PM Brian Evans <grknight@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 2/8/2021 12:53 PM, Brian Evans wrote: |
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> > On 2/8/2021 6:19 AM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> >> Hi, |
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> >> |
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> >> FYI the developers of dev-python/cryptography decided that Rust is going |
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> >> to be mandatory for 1.5+ versions. It's unlikely that they're going to |
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> >> provide LTS support or security fixes for the old versions. |
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> >> Since cryptography is a very important package in the Python ecosystem, |
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> >> and it is an indirect dependency of Portage, this means that we will |
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> >> probably have to entirely drop support for architectures that are not |
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> >> supported by Rust. |
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> > For the portage indirect dependency, can it be swapped for pycurl? |
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> > AFAICT, it is just used to pull GPG sigs in gemato via dev-python/requests. |
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> > This at least would at least keep the arches in question with some |
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> > support but not necessarily all of python world until a clearer plan can |
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> > be made. |
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> > Brian |
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> After discussion in #gentoo-dev and simple chroot testing, it seems like |
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> dev-python/requests nor dev-python/urlllib3 needs |
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> dev-python/cryptography at all (when run with stable Python, tested with |
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> 3.8). So unless there's a really good reason outside of gemato sync, |
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> this looks to be a non-issue for portage and more of a dependency fix. |
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I created a PR to drop this and related deps from dev-python/urllib3 |
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and dev-python/requests. Please review. |
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https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/19383 |
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