On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 3:07 PM, Tristan Seligmann <mithra...@mithrandi.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 at 20:12 Corey Bryant <corey.bry...@canonical.com> > wrote: > >> Installation of python-cryptography doesn't install python-cffi. This >> is on Ubuntu Bionic. The following bug has some more details: >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python- >> cryptography/+bug/1752660 >> >> The package currently has 'dh_python(2|3) --depends=cffi' but that is >> apparently not working, at least on bionic. >> > > In Debian, python-cffi is only required at build time. At runtime, it is > not required (only python-cffi-backend is required). This is mostly > driven by the python-cffi package itself: see > /usr/share/python/dist/python-cffi > for details. > > I don't immediately know why or if this would be different in Ubuntu, and > I don't immediately see what the stack trace in the Ubuntu bug report has > to do with cffi being installed or not. > Thanks for the quick feedback. For now I've asked the reporter if they'd be able to test with package version that has python-cffi added to binary Depends.
