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FS#59857 - [youtube-dl] switch from pycrypto to pycryptodome

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by userwithuid (userwithuid) - Wednesday, 29 August 2018, 09:18 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Wednesday, 29 August 2018, 13:12 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

pycrypto (arch: python-crypto) is unmaintained since 2014! and insecure. the maintained fork python-pycryptodome is already packaged in arch.

for youtube-dl, it's as simple as

- 'python-crypto: for hlsnative downloader')
+ 'python-pycryptodome: for hlsnative downloader')

I have verified that hlsnative aes-decryption still works (for example on video.vice.com).
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Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Wednesday, 29 August 2018, 13:12 GMT
Reason for closing:  Deferred
Additional comments about closing:  Will be replaced globally
Comment by Chih-Hsuan Yen (yan12125) - Wednesday, 29 August 2018, 11:25 GMT
The replacement is going to happen for the whole Arch Linux system: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2018-August/029352.html

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