[aur-requests] [PRQ#35643] Deletion Request for python2-pycrypto

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Tue Jun 21 22:52:04 UTC 2022


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

This is not required. It has been discontinued in 2013 and
has been replaced by [community] python2-pycryptodome.

The package is also not proper, as this should at least conflict
with python2-pycryptodome; as they share the same namespace.

PyCryptodome is the continuation fork of this deprecated module,
therefore there is no good reason to provide this except maybe
to very old modules before 2012 (which, if exist, have a high
chance of not working correctly now with Python 2.7 anyway).

Even worse, it declares it provides python2-pycryptodome, which is
impossible; an ancestor module from 2013 cannot provide 2022's
version of its successor module.

Anyway, nothing in AUR requires this. They depend either on
python2-pycryptodome from repo, or on 'python2-crypto', which leads
them to use the former from repo (via its virtual provides).

So I urge you to delete this package.

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


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