On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 12:53 -0500, Brian Evans wrote: > On 2/8/2021 6:19 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > Hi, > > > > FYI the developers of dev-python/cryptography decided that Rust is going > > to be mandatory for 1.5+ versions. It's unlikely that they're going to > > provide LTS support or security fixes for the old versions. > > > > Since cryptography is a very important package in the Python ecosystem, > > and it is an indirect dependency of Portage, this means that we will > > probably have to entirely drop support for architectures that are not > > supported by Rust. > > > > For the portage indirect dependency, can it be swapped for pycurl? > > AFAICT, it is just used to pull GPG sigs in gemato via dev-python/requests.
I'll probably switch it to built-in urllib.request. The py3 versions should be good enough (previously urllib3 had better TLS support than old urllib AFAIR). -- Best regards, Michał Górny
