On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 06:31:17PM +0200, Antoine Le Gonidec wrote: > My first step is going to check if I can simply drop this vendored > boringssl source (with a bit of luck it is not required for anything > really important). > > If I can not do that I might have to find a way to patch it to drop the > requirement on the deprecated "pipes" library. If it comes to that, > could I expect some help (or at least advice) from the Python team?
In this case the fix is straightforward. Nowadays you can safely assume Python 3.3 or newer, and therefore you can replace "import pipes" with "import shlex" and "pipes.quote" with "shlex.quote"; that seems to be all that this script needs. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
