I could work on legacycrypt.

On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 4:19 AM Louis-Philippe Véronneau <po...@debian.org>
wrote:

> On 2024-08-02 17:21, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I will need some "zombie-telnetlib" (so exactly the same API as
> > existing telnetlib)
> > because I maintain proprietary .deb (not "Debian packages") that need
> > to be installable without rebuild on Buster, Bookworm & Trixie.
> >
> > I understand that "telnetlib3" / "exscript" are 'better/newer' API but
> > that does not fit the need.
> >
> > Debian could also benefit from this zombie-telnetlib.
> >
> > Should it be a native package or one with real upstream on PyPi ?
>
> That was another item we discussed during the 2nd BoF. There are already
> some projects like these [1][2] and we were considering packaging them
> to ease the 3.13 transition.
>
> eamanu said he would make a list of upstream projects we could package,
> but if you have some time, getting a list of projects would be great.
>
> If we end up packaging these libraries, I think it should be clear that
> they won't be available for Forky (Debian 14). The last thing we want is
> to maintain some deprecated zombie-libraries forever in Debian :(
>
> Cheers,
>
> [1]: https://github.com/simonrob/pyasyncore
> [2]: https://github.com/tiran/legacycrypt
>
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