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Re: py-cryptography soon will need rust



Am Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 12:35:29AM +0200 schrieb Thomas Klausner:
> I wanted to update py-cryptography to the latest version, since it's
> security-related software and we should be tracking head. This is not
> used by much software in pkgsrc, but notably by py-certbot, a software
> for keeping your Let's Encrypt-certificates up-to-date.

It's used by py-requests, so it is a pretty heavy dependency.

> I understand where py-cryptography's authors are coming from, they
> want fast and secure software, and rust is claiming that space.

*sigh* Yeah. Noone cares about non-binary package use nowadays :(

Joerg


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