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

[Daniel Stender]

On Sat, 21 May 2016 16:47:34 +0200 Vincent Bernat <bernat at debian.org> wrote:
>  ❦ 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
> -- 
> It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely
> the most important.
> 		-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Case of Identity"

New bug on this: #824952

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