Bug#781984: ITP: libnacl -- ctypes wrapper for libsodium

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

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.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]