Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 21/33] python3-ply: move from meta-python

Randy MacLeod
2026-01-30T01:12:46Z

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From almost 4 years ago:

On 2022-03-14 6:48 p.m., Richard Purdie wrote:
> From: Tim Orling<tim.orling@konsulko.com>
>
> Dependency for python3-cryptography
>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Orling<tim.orling@konsulko.com>
> ---
> .../python/python3-ply_3.11.bb | 18 ++++++++++++++++++

I was looking at a python3-ply CVE the other day and I noticed that
the upstream repository was archived by the owner on Dec 21, 2025. It is
now read-only.
https://github.com/dabeaz/ply

so we'll have to see if anyone takes over maintenance or
if the users switch to a different lex/yacc in python implementation.

On master there are only 2 current users via a layer index depends query:

https://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/recipes/?q=depends%3Apython3-ply

but there could be some recipes that use it such as meta-sca.

I don't see where it was ever used by python3-cryptography but it is
still declared as a dependency  for spdx-tools:

❯ rg python3-ply
..
meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-spdx-tools_0.8.3.bb
16:# Dependencies required for conversion to spdx3 :
python3-semantic-version, python3-ply
24:  python3-ply \

Consider this a head up for those CCed.

Since it's not maintained, it would be nice to replace it
or if not really used by spdx-tools, move it back to meta-oe.

../Randy

> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-ply_3.11.bb
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-ply_3.11.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-ply_3.11.bb
> new file mode 100644
> index 00000000000..99c037bb734
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-ply_3.11.bb
> @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
> +SUMMARY = "Python Lex and Yacc"
> +DESCRIPTION = "Python ply: PLY is yet another implementation of lex and yacc for Python"
> +HOMEPAGE ="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ply"
> +SECTION = "devel/python"
> +LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause"
> +LIC_FILES_CHKSUM ="file://README.md;beginline=5;endline=32;md5=f5ee5c355c0e6719c787a71b8f0fa96c"
> +
> +SRC_URI[md5sum] = "6465f602e656455affcd7c5734c638f8"
> +SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "00c7c1aaa88358b9c765b6d3000c6eec0ba42abca5351b095321aef446081da3"
> +
> +inherit pypi setuptools3
> +
> +RDEPENDS:${PN}:class-target += "\
> + ${PYTHON_PN}-netclient \
> + ${PYTHON_PN}-shell \
> +"
> +
> +BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
>

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# Randy MacLeod
# Wind River Linux

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