On Tue, 17 Apr 2018, at 6:25 PM, Daniele Nicolodi wrote: > On 4/17/18 8:57 AM, Joel Cross wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Joel Cross <joel+debb...@kazbak.co.uk> > > > > * Package name : python-base58 > > Version : 0.2.5 > > Upstream Author : David Keijser <keij...@gmail.com> > > * URL : https://github.com/keis/base58 > > * License : MIT > > Programming Lang: Python > > Description : base58 encode/decode for Python > > > > This package contains the following functions, in a form compatible with > > that > > used by the bitcoin network: > > - b58encode > > - b58decode > > - b58encode_check > > - b58decode_check > > Hi Joel, > > I had a look at this Python package a while ago, and I was very > surprised to find that its interface does not match the one of the > functions in the base64 standard library module in the use of strings vs > bytes. I had to introduce some wrappers to make it sane in that regard. > > I see in the upstream repository some commits that suggest that this has > been fixed (breaking the API probably). However, nothing that hints > that a release has been made after that. > > It would be nice to have the fixed version in Debian and to avoid API > breakage, at least once the Python package enters the Debian archive. > > Cheers, > Dan
Thanks Dan. I assume you're referring to the https://github.com/keis/base58/issues/15 issue? (Output is string, not bytes)
