Re: Bug#781984: ITP: libnacl -- ctypes wrapper for libsodium
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 01:35:14PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 08:44:05AM +0200, David Douard wrote:
> > On 07/27/2015 12:08 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> > > ❦ 5 avril 2015 22:12 +0200, David Douard <david.douard@logilab.fr> :
> > >> * Package name : libnacl
> > >> Version : 1.4.2
> > >> Upstream Author : Thomas S Hatch <thatch@saltstack.com>
> > >> * URL : https://libnacl.readthedocs.org/
> > >> * License : Apache 2.0
> > >> Programming Lang: Python
> > >> Description : ctypes wrapper for libsodium
> > >>
> > >> This library is used to gain direct access to the functions exposed by
> > >> Daniel J. Bernstein's nacl library via libsodium or tweetnacl. It has
> > >> been constructed to maintain extensive documentation on how to use nacl
> > >> as well as being completely portable.
> > >>
> > >> This package is a dependency for raet, the new transport layer for
> > >> salt.
> > >
> > > Hey!
> > >
> > > Any progress on this ITP? I am interested in it since it is a soft
> > > dependency of asyncssh.
> >
> > Sorry I've started the packaging a while ago but I've been laking time to
> > finish the job. I'll try to work on it within a couple of days.
>
> I need this for pymacaroons too.
>
> This ITP is now over a year old, with the last activity being over nine
> months ago. Will you in fact have time to maintain this package? If
> not, I would be happy to take over this ITP and maintain it.
I've pushed preliminary packaging here:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/python-libnacl.git
David, if I don't hear anything in the next week, I plan to take over
this ITP and upload to NEW. Of course I'd welcome co-maintainers, as
suggested by the collab-maint location.
Thanks,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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