bug#27081: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: python-cryptography: Update to 1.8.1.

[Marius Bakke]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 03:19:06PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-cryptography, python2-cryptography,
>> > python-cryptography-vectors, python2-cryptography-vectors):
>> > Update to 1.8.1.
>> > (python-cryptography, python2-cryptography)[propagated-inputs]: Add
>> > python-asn1crypto and python-packaging.
>> 
>> I'm very confused about the 'packaging' dependency. Grepping for
>> 'packaging' in the code returns zero hits. Do you know how it's used?
>
> Here are the results:
>
> $ pwd
> /home/leo/tmp/cryptography-1.8.1
> $ grep -rI packaging
> src/cryptography/utils.py:from packaging.version import parse
> src/cryptography.egg-info/requires.txt:packaging
>
> Did you search in another version of the code?

Odd. Since the patch did not apply, I went ahead and cloned the
repository:

0 ✓ ~/git/python-cryptography $ git grep -i packaging
1 ✗ ~/git/python-cryptography $ 

Digging through the log, it seems this dependency is removed in 1.9. Can
you mention that in a comment? :-)

https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/pull/3524/commits/d25152ba9e8a466d9521543002a2ee2f2b4cafc3

> Having read that code, perhaps we should try updating cffi soon. It
> checks if cffi is version 1.7. We package 1.4.2; 1.10.0 is the latest.

Sounds good!

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