Deprecation warning on Debian

[Gordon Tyler]

On 23/06/2010 10:59 AM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 10:31 -0400, Gordon Tyler wrote:
>> On 23/06/2010 6:41 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
>>> Using Bazaar on Debian Testing I get the message:
>>>
>>> /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Crypto/Util/randpool.py:40: RandomPool_DeprecationWarning: This application uses RandomPool, which is BROKEN in older releases.  See http://www.pycrypto.org/randpool-broken
>>>   RandomPool_DeprecationWarning)
>>>
>>> which I don't get with Ubuntu Lucid.  Is this something I should be
>>> worrying about?  (Either because it happens on Debian, or because it
>>> doesn't happen on Ubuntu.)
>>
>> I have had to work around this problem in the Mac installers by patching
>> paramiko to silence the warning. What irks me is that it has been in
>> this situation for over a year and the paramiko author hasn't done
>> anything about it.
> Have you reported the issue upstream ? He might simply not be aware of
> it (I have only seen this warning on Debian recently, not on Ubuntu).

https://bugs.launchpad.net/paramiko/+bug/271791

Not exactly the same bug but I just added a comment about the
deprecation warning.

Also:

http://github.com/robey/paramiko/issues#issue/1

Ciao,
Gordon