Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org>
* Package name : py-macaroon-bakery Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Juju UI Team <juju-...@lists.ubuntu.com> * URL : https://github.com/go-macaroon-bakery/py-macaroon-bakery * License : LGPL-3 Programming Lang: Python Description : Higher-level macaroon operations for Python Macaroons, like cookies, are a form of bearer credential. Unlike opaque tokens, macaroons embed caveats that define specific authorization requirements for the target service, the service that issued the root macaroon and which is capable of verifying the integrity of macaroons it receives. . Macaroons allow for delegation and attenuation of authorization. They are simple and fast to verify, and decouple authorization policy from the enforcement of that policy. . The macaroonbakery library builds on pymacaroons to allow working with macaroons at a higher level, such as by automatically gathering discharge macaroons for third-party caveats from their corresponding services. We already use pymacaroons extensively at work (Canonical; see #824554), and we're likely to move in the direction of using this library for more things rather than dealing with things like gathering SSO discharge macaroons in ad-hoc ways. Having this packaged would make life easier there. This has a test dependency on httmock, which I've also just ITPed. I intend to maintain this within the Debian Python Modules Team. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]