[aur-requests] [PRQ#36707] Deletion Request for python-pycrypto

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MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for python-pycrypto [2]:

Insecure, deprecated parent fork of PyCryptodome, discontinued since
2013.

I've made considerable efforts in communicating with AUR package
maintainers whose builds were formerly configured to depend explicitly
on python-pycrypto, to update those to use an appropriate continuation
fork. Almost all former consumers got successfully migrated during the
last month.

So the number of AUR dependents got reduced to 2:
* python-salt: needs update and requires python-pycryptodomex;
* validity-sensors-tools-git: deprecated, unmaintained unofficial fork
of python-validity; not updated since 2 years ago.

Arch repos carry the continuation forks: python-pycryptodome and
python-pycryptodomex.

The validity-sensors-tools-git package should work OOB with python-
pycryptodome, or if not, a minor packaging patch should make it
compatible with the latter.

Meanwhile, this pycrypto package is defunct because it is incompatible
with Python 3.10:
byte-compilation shows a multitude of syntax/import/parameter errors.
Therefore I see no reason to keep it on AUR any longer.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-pycrypto/