Comment 1 for bug 238658

We should also note that many debian platforms don't have valid egg-info files for their pyopenssl installations. dapper and etch have none at all, edgy has an egg-info for py2.5 only, and gutsy has a "pyOpenSSL.egg-info" (as opposed to the "pyOpenSSL-0.6.egg-info" file that we would expect).

So many of our target platforms will be unable to tell that pyopenssl is installed, and are therefore likely to try to build it anyways. This is unfortunate, as a binary debian package of python-openssl or foolscap (with all of its recommended dependencies) should be sufficient.

We might want to revert the foolscap change that declares this dependency.. it may cause more harm than good.