[Python-modules-team] Bug#803096: python-bcrypt: please update python-bcrypt

[Simon Fondrie-Teitler]

Hey,

Raphael Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org> writes:

> Control: severity -1 important
>
> On Mon, 26 Oct 2015, Daniel Stender wrote:
>> Please update python-bcrypt, we need >= 1.1.0 for Privacyidea.
>
> I have a similar need for Django 1.9 whose test suite currently fails due
> to this...
>
> Except that the package currently tracks py-bcrypt:
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/py-bcrypt
>
> And the version that seem to be most popular is this one which is
> backwards compatible with py-bcrypt:
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bcrypt
>
> I would suggest to just switch to bcrypt. The other ones seems
> unmaintained and the google code hosting is now read only without
> any clear place for followup.
>
> I'm ccing the upstream author of py-bcrypt to have his input. Damien,
> maybe you should officially deprecate py-bcrypt in favor of bcrypt?
>
> And update http://www.mindrot.org/projects/py-bcrypt/ and pypi accordingly.
> (I don't think that you can update google code at this point)
>
> Daniel, the current maintainer seems MIA, are you willing to prepare the
> update so that I can sponsor it? :-)
>
> Simon, in case you read this, shall we drop you from the uploaders or are
> you willing to handle this update?

Cool, I didn't know there was a fork of this. I should be able to work
on getting a new version out. I'll ping you for a review when it's
ready.


Simon
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