[Python-modules-team] Bug#764034: python-gnutls: GnuTLS OpenPGP functions not in gnutls.library.functions

[Teddy Hogeborn]

Package: python-gnutls
Version: 2.0.1-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch upstream

In gnutls/library/functions.py, line 1401, it tries to access the C
library function "gnutls_certificate_get_openpgp_key", to determine if
the OpenPGP functions are present in the library.  (This is a change
from the old code for the old GnuTLS library, which tried to access
"gnutls_certificate_get_openpgp_keyring" instead, but that function
has been removed in the new GnuTLS library, so the change was
necessary.)  The problem is that the function accessed, called
"gnutls_certificate_get_openpgp_key", does not exist, and has never
existed in any version of GnuTLS I could find.  Therefore, the code in
functions.py determines that OpenPGP support is not present and does
not import the needed functions from the C library.  By reading the
following code in functions.py, and comparing with the old version, I
am pretty sure that what was actually meant was instead the function
"gnutls_certificate_set_openpgp_key".  Indeed, when changed to that,
the functions in the Python module are present, callable and working.

/Teddy Hogeborn

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Versions of packages python-gnutls depends on:
ii  libgnutls-deb0-28  3.3.8-2
ii  python             2.7.8-1

Versions of packages python-gnutls recommends:
ii  python-twisted-core  14.0.2-2

python-gnutls suggests no packages.

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-- debsums errors found:
debsums: changed file /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gnutls/library/functions.py (from python-gnutls package)
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