Re: Announcement of intention to backport electrum and dependencies

Soren Stoutner <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:18:58 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.backports.general
Organization	Debian
Message-ID	<4380219.1IzOArtZ34@soren-desktop>

On Wednesday, December 17, 2025 7:46:18 PM Mountain Standard Time Soren 
Stoutner wrote:
> > Electrum depends on python-electrum-ecc (a new package that used to be
> > included inside of electrum, but has been spun off upstream as a separate
> > Python project) and an updated version of libsecp256k1, which is a library
> > that is part of the bitcoin-core project and is used for cryptographic
> > operations.
> > 
> > I intend to backport the dependencies first and then the main electrum
> > package.
> 
> In the previous email I failed to mention that electrum has an additional 
new
> dependency that used to be included in electrum itself, but was recently 
spun
> out as a seperate Python project named python-electrum-aionostr.  I will
> upload it to trixie-backports shortly, after which electrum will be ready to
> backport.

When preparing to upload electrum to trixie-backports, the test suite alerted 
me to three failures.  It turns out that electrum needs the version of 
python3-aiorpcx from testing to function correctly.  So, I am backporting that 
(in coordination with the maintainer), and then everything should be ready for 
electrum.

-- 
Soren Stoutner
[email protected]

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