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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-python/cryptography to use rust, effectively killing alpha, hppa, ia64, m68k, s390
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:50:02
Message-Id: CAJ0EP40KHBjg9wL0JxeBEjOdcdKUQHYrLRBF7jBOx2rUOKvLrQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-python/cryptography to use rust, effectively killing alpha, hppa, ia64, m68k, s390 by Peter Stuge
1 On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 4:57 PM Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se> wrote:
2 > > The first big blocker we're going to hit is trustme [3] package that
3 > > relies on cryptography API pretty heavily to generate TLS certs for
4 > > testing.
5 >
6 > For which testing? Could it be changed to generate certs differently?
7
8 He is probably referring to the test suite in dev-python/urllib3,
9 which uses the python "trustme" package in several places.
10
11 https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/search?q=trustme
12
13 Someone would need to convince the urllib3 developers to use something
14 else to manage certificates in their unit tests.

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