Upstream's version is 0.6.0.X, where X appears to be a large integer
in decimal that corresponds to a git sha1 has. Such large numbers
violate the assumption, true with just about every previous package,
that version number components will fit in an int --- code that
handles version numbers does not use a multiprecision integer library
like gmp. To address this, split the version into what would have
been the version under normal procedures (0.6.0), and put the bignum
into ${VERSION_EXCESSIVE}, allowing it be used in DISTNAME but not
PKGNAME.
(Yes, that ridiculous version number really is what upstream calls it.)
No NEWS entry, but announcement includes:
2012-03-13 Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <zooko@zooko.com>
* src/pycryptopp/_version.py: release pycryptopp-0.6.0
* add Ed25519 signatures (#75)
* add XSalsa20 cipher (#40)
* switch from darcs to git for revision control
* pycryptopp version numbers now include a decimal encoding of *
* reorganize the source tree and the version number generation
* aesmodule.cpp: validate size of IV and throw exception if it
is not 16 (#70)
* fixed compile errors with gcc-4.7.0 (#78)
* fixed compile errors concerning "CryptoPP::g_nullNameValuePairs" (#77)
* suppress warnings from valgrind with new OpenSSL 1.0.1 on Fedora (#82)
* raise Python exception instead of uncaught C++ exception
(resulting in abort) when deserializing malformed RSA keys (#83)
Upstream changes:
Not complete, the only info mentionned in the Changelog is this:
2011-01-16 -- pycryptopp v0.5.28
re-enable the ECDSA module, but please do not rely on it as it is expected to
change in backwards-incompatible ways in future releases several changes to the
build system to make it tidier and less error-prone -- see revision control
history for details
2010-09-20 -- pycryptopp v0.5.25
* make setup backwards-compatible to Python 2.4
* fix incompatibilities between setup script and older versions of darcsver
* don't attempt to compile Mac OS X extended attribute files (this fixes the build breaking)
* include a version number of the specific version of Crypto++ in extraversion.h
* small changes to docs
2010-09-18 -- pycryptopp v0.5.20
* fix bugs in assembly implementation of SHA-256 from Crypto++
* fix it to compile on *BSD (#39)
* improve doc strings
* add a quick start-up-self-test of SHA256 (#43)
* execute the quick start-up-self-tests of AES and SHA256 on module import
While one would expect a python wrapper for a library to link with the
library, this packages's source has files from crypto++, and it
doesn't try to link against the installed crypto++.
