Re: [PATCH 0/1] Split acme into both Python variants

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> This patch splits the acme library into both Python variants. Currently,
> its only user in Guix is the Python 2 official Let's Encrypt client, but
> there is other software out there that supports Python 3.

Sounds reasonable.

> I tried and tried to make the python2-acme version inherit more from
> python-acme but this is what I got working.
>
> I did try to apply the solution used in python2-pyopenssl and
> python2-oauthlib [0] but I couldn't make it work. I think the issue is
> that python2-acme uses both python2-pyopenssl and python2-cryptography,
> so there are multiple layers of translation to watch out for.
>
> Suggestions welcome!

What did you try exactly?  The workaround is to explicitly list
dependencies instead of using those computed by ‘package-with-python2’.

HTH,
Ludo'.