[bug#29415] [PATCH] gnu: python-axolotl: Update to 0.1.39 and fix build.

[Adam Van Ymeren <adam@vany.ca>]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi Adam,
>
> Adam Van Ymeren <adam@vany.ca> skribis:
>
>> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>>> I think this change should be submitted upstream, which is here:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/tgalal/python-axolotl
>>>
>>> Can you do that? We wouldn't have to wait for a new release of
>>> python-axolotl, but we should wait to hear what the upstream maintainer
>>> thinks.
>>
>> Pull request sent.
>>
>> There is also a pull request pending from someone else that updates
>> pyton-axolotl to use a newer python cryptography library rather than the
>> deprecated python-pycrypto library.  That would also fix this issue and
>> is a much better long term fix but also a more intrusive change.
>
> Any update on this?  :-)

Haven't heard anything from the maintainer :/.

We could just go ahead and apply my patch anways :).  Or remove the
package from guix entirely.  As it stands the package has been broken
for over a year in guix.

https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/python-axolotl-0.1.35.x86_64-linux

>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ludo’.