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Bug#704706: marked as done (ITP: python-browserid -- Python library for the BrowserID Protocol (Mozilla Persona))

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : python-browserid
  Version         : 0.10.0
  Upstream Author : Mozilla Identity Team <dev-identity@lists.mozilla.org>
* URL             : https://github.com/PyBrowserID
* License         : MPL 2.0
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : a python library for the BrowserID Protocol (Mozilla Persona)

BrowserID is a cross-browser, provider-agnostic login system for the
Web.  It is designed to eliminate site-specific passwords and rely on
strong cryptography to verify user identities.  Mozilla offers their
"Persona" service as the the first major implementation (and as a
fallback for sites that do not yet implement their own BrowserID
service.

This package provides a python client library for web sites that want
to identify users via BrowserID.  It does not implement BrowserID
provider functionality.

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Control: tag -1 wontfix

Le jeudi 24 mars 2016 à 15:51:34+0100, Ondřej Surý a écrit :
> Are you sure we need this in the archive? Packaging dead horse doesn't seem
> like a good idea...
> 
> Wikipedia says:
> 
> It was launched in July 2011, but after failing to achieve traction, Mozilla
> announced in January 2016 plans to decommission the service by the end of the
> year.[3]

Hey,

hyperkitty, which is part of mailman3 suite depends on django-browserid
which depends on PyBrowserID, so for starts I wanted to package these two.

I realized yesterday's evening after submitting my ITP that Persona was
about to shutdown (in Nov.). Sadly, this was not clearly mentioned neither
on https://login.persona.org/ nor on PyBrowserID Github's page.

That pushes me backwards. I'll suggest upstream to drop browserid
dependency, as it's quite "easy" to do.

I close the bug since it seems not relevant to package this library anymore.

Thanks for your email, and sorry for the noise.

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PEB

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