Package: magic-wormhole Severity: wishlist I find this software to be clearly useful and it should be available in stable.
I have looked into making this possible - of course, it would need to first migrate to testing, but there are other considerations to be mentionned here first. Here are the dependencies and the status of backporting possibilities: * python3-autobahn: hard, depends on python3-snappy, which depends on python 3.5 * python3-click: trivial * python3-cffi: backported (missing from debian/control) * python3-hkdf: trivial * python3-nacl: hard, depends on python 3.5 (missing from debian/control) * python3-six: trivial (missing from debian/control) * python3-spake2: trivial * python3-tqdm: trivial * python3-twisted: backported (missing from debian/control) * python3-txaoi: backported, but too old (missing from debian/control) * python3-twisted: in stable Some definitions: * trivial: not in stable, can be installed directly from testing without change * hard: not in stable, cannot be installed directly from stretch, and includes dependencies that need backporting themselves * backported: already present in backports * in stable: already present with a good enough version in stable Note that the two hard backports can still be installed with pip or easy-install, so maybe those packages can just be changed to *not* depend on Python 3.5. Discussions with those maintainers should be made to clarify this situation. In other words, with properly setup sources.list and preferences files, I can install wormhole with only limited non-Debian packages. The install steps on Jessie, for me, currently are: echo 'deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie-backports main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jessie-backports.list echo 'deb http://http.debian.net/debian stretch main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/stretch.list sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/stretch.pref <<EOF Package: * Pin: release n=stretch Pin-Priority: 1 EOF sudo apt install python3-click python3-hkdf python3-six python3-spake2 python3-tqdm python3-twisted sudo apt install -t jessie-backports python3-cffi python3-twisted debcheckout magic-wormhole cd magic-wormhole python3 setup.py install The last three lines can also be replaced with just "pip install magic-wormhole". This installs, in /usr/local, magic-wormhole, autobahn-0.15, PyNaCl-1.0.1 and txaoi-2.5.1. Thanks for packaging magic-wormhole! A. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
