[Pkg-xmpp-devel] Bug#990963: gajim: Recommends non-existent python3-crypto package

[Matt Marjanovic]

Package: gajim
Version: 1.3.1-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: maddog at mir.com

Dear Maintainer,

The gajim package has a Recommends for the python3-crypto package, but that
package no longer exists after buster.  (It has been removed from unstable/testing
and will not exist in bullseye.)

It is not clear what functionality is lost if python3-crypto is not present or 
if it is removed, so it is not clear (to me) how serious this is.  E.g., will
OMEMO encryption/decryption abruptly stop working?  changelog.Debian.gz suggests
that this was the case at some (early) point, as it mentions that the Recommends
was added to enable end-to-end encryption.  On the other hand, the gajim-omemo
package itself has a hard Depends on the python3-cryptography package --- so
maybe the Recommends for python3-crypto is vestigial and can simply be dropped.


(If the python3-crypto Recommends does still serve a purpose:  the removed-from-unstable
message for python3-crypto mentions that it has been replaced by python3-pycryptodome.
Maybe this is enough of a drop-in replacement that the Recommends could simply be
changed to the new package?  I have no idea if this is actually the case; I am just
trying to give this bug a chance of being fixed for bullseye.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gajim depends on:
ii  desktop-file-utils   0.26-1
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0       3.24.24-4
ii  python3              3.9.2-3
ii  python3-cairo        1.16.2-4+b2
ii  python3-css-parser   1.0.6-1
ii  python3-cssutils     1.0.2-3
ii  python3-gi           3.38.0-2
ii  python3-gi-cairo     3.38.0-2
ii  python3-idna         2.10-1
ii  python3-keyring      22.0.1-1
ii  python3-nbxmpp       2.0.2-1
ii  python3-openssl      20.0.1-1
ii  python3-packaging    20.9-2
ii  python3-precis-i18n  1.0.2-3

Versions of packages gajim recommends:
ii  alsa-utils                           1.2.4-1
ii  aspell-en [aspell-dictionary]        2018.04.16-0-1
ii  ca-certificates                      20210119
ii  dbus                                 1.12.20-2
ii  fonts-noto-color-emoji               0~20200916-1
ii  gajim-omemo                          2.7.13-1
ii  gajim-pgp                            1.3.5-2
ii  gir1.2-farstream-0.2                 0.2.9-1
ii  gir1.2-geoclue-2.0                   2.5.7-3
ii  gir1.2-gsound-1.0                    1.0.2-5
ii  gir1.2-gspell-1                      1.8.4-1
ii  gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0          1.18.4-dmo1
ii  gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0                 1.18.4-2
ii  gir1.2-gupnpigd-1.0                  1.2.0-1
ii  gir1.2-secret-1                      0.20.4-2
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly            1:1.18.4-dmo3
ii  notification-daemon                  3.20.0-4
ii  pulseaudio-utils                     14.2-2
ii  python3-crypto                       2.6.1-13.1+b3
ii  python3-dbus                         1.2.16-5
ii  python3-gnupg                        0.4.6-1
ii  python3-pil                          8.1.2+dfsg-0.2
ii  sox                                  14.4.2+git20190427-2
ii  xfce4-notifyd [notification-daemon]  0.6.2-1

Versions of packages gajim suggests:
ii  avahi-daemon      0.8-5
ii  libxss1           1:1.2.3-1
pn  nautilus-sendto   <none>
ii  python3-kerberos  1.1.14-3.1+b3
ii  python3-pycurl    7.43.0.6-5

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