[Python-modules-team] Bug#857278: python-nacl: sodium_init() fails because already initialized.

[Rahul De]

Package: python-nacl
Version: 1.0.1-2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

The call to sodium_init() fails because already initialized.

This has been referenced in the upstream repo at https://github.com/pyca/pynacl/issues/186.
The patch for this is also available in https://github.com/pyca/pynacl/pull/199 and has been 
merged too. I have requsted the upstream on https://github.com/pyca/pynacl/issues/265 to 
do a newer release. Although a large number of commits have been done since but a new 
release hasn't been done having this patch.

I was trying to install the matrix-synapse package which depends on this. matrix-synapse
fails to start due to this problem.

If a new release isn't available please consider releasing directly from the latest git.

Thanks.
 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages python-nacl depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.24-3
ii  libsodium18                  1.0.11-1
ii  python                       2.7.11-2
ii  python-cffi                  1.9.1-2
pn  python-cffi-backend-api-max  <none>
pn  python-cffi-backend-api-min  <none>
ii  python-six                   1.10.0-3
pn  python:any                   <none>

python-nacl recommends no packages.

Versions of packages python-nacl suggests:
pn  python-nacl-doc  <none>

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