[aur-requests] [PRQ#36244] Deletion Request for python2-certifi

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Wed Jul 6 17:25:31 UTC 2022


MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for python2-certifi [2]:

This is not needed by any packages in AUR.

I've uploaded it recently when restoring python2-requests to AUR, only
to realized that it is not necessary.

Python certifi is only a repackage of Mozilla's CA bundle. The
official packaging for Python 2 has been discontinued 2 years ago,
thereby this package is not as secure as it should be.

But Arch maintainers of Py2 and Py3 packages have come up with a
simple patch, applied to dependent packages in their prepare()
function, to make the Python module use /etc/ssl/certs/ca-
certificates.crt directly, delivered by Arch repo's ca-certificates-
utils package.

I've applied the same patch to AUR/python2-requests.

So please kindly delete this unused package.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python2-certifi/


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