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

[Vincent Bernat]

 ❦ 21 mai 2016 16:32 +0200, Vincent Bernat <bernat at debian.org> :

>> 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
>
> It is not compatible. py-bcrypt was providing a kdf() function to get
> random bytes using a password and a salt. It would have been nice to
> check reverse dependencies. It's not like they were many of them... I
> suppose I can reupload the previous one as python-pybcrypt.

In fact, I can't since they share the same namespace... I have asked if
it would be possible for the new module to implement such a function,
but I won't hold my breath:

 https://github.com/pyca/bcrypt/issues/65
-- 
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the most important.
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