bug#26438: [PATCH] Add fabric, python-paramiko: Update to 1.17.4.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Ben Sturmfels <address@hidden> skribis:

> Couple of notes:
>
> 1. I found that I needed to upgrade python-paramiko to minimum 1.17.4 to
> avoid an incompatibility between python-paramiko and newer
> python-pycrypto. I'm not sure what the implications are of this.
> Technically only the Python 2 version needs to be upgraded, since Fabric
> is Python 2 only, but I've upgraded both for consistency.

Sounds good.

> 2. I've disabled tests for now as they fail when the package attempts to
> download the "test-require" dependency "fudge". What's the normal way to
> stop the Python package doing it's own dependency downloading? Happy to
> also package "python2-fudge", but that didn't fix the downloading issue.

I would expect that adding python2-fudge would indeed fix the problem
(the setuptools machinery checks for already-available packages and only
tries to download as a last resort.)  Would need more investigation I
guess!

>>From 521b29606ca4e1a34c9db89fbc22201eea581370 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ben Sturmfels <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 00:06:20 +1000
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add fabric, python-paramiko: Update to 1.17.4.
>
> * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-paramiko): Update to 1.17.4.
> * gnu/packages/admin.scm (fabric): New variable.

I’ve split it into two commits and applied.

Thank you, and welcome!

Ludo’.