Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-python/cryptography to use rust, effectively killing alpha, hppa, ia64, m68k, s390

[Brian Evans]

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.

This at least would at least keep the arches in question with some 
support but not necessarily all of python world until a clearer plan can 
be made.

Brian