Where can we find the repository for `python3-proton-vpn-lib` (new dependency required in v0.46.1)?

[antermin]

c715816, included in v0.46.1, introduces a new dependency python3-proton-vpn-lib.

At the time of writing, I cannot find any repository under the @ProtonVPN organization which provides that dependency.

Searching for lib returns https://github.com/ProtonVPN/go-vpn-lib but it's in Go, apparently it is not python3-proton-vpn-lib.
And if I do a code search for proton-vpn-lib, it returns 3 files, all are files from this repo (python-proton-vpn-api-core), they are setup.py and Debian / Fedora package build scripts.

At the same time, I notice that there are published binaries in ProtonVPN's Debian and Fedora repos, such as:

• https://repo.protonvpn.com/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/python3-proton-vpn-lib_0.1.1_amd64.deb
• https://repo.protonvpn.com/fedora-41-stable/python3-proton-vpn-lib/python3-proton-vpn-lib-0.1.1-1.fc41.x86_64.rpm

Can you please provide the source code / publish the repository of python3-proton-vpn-lib to facilitate packaging in Arch Linux and other distros?

CC: Arch Linux maintainer for ProtonVPN packages @ptr1337

[ptr1337]

If the package will not be available as source, then we are forced to drop proton-vpn from the repository or keep it downgraded to the old version

@calexandru2018

Would you mind clarify where are the sources or do they keep closed source?

[antermin]

@ptr1337

Based on past experience, e.g. ProtonVPN/python-proton-vpn-network-manager#3, I suppose it's just that they forgot to make the repo public, or they are still doing some preparations before publishing the repo.

python3-proton-vpn-lib is probably FOSS based on the content from /usr/share/doc/python3-proton-vpn-lib/copyright in data.tar.xz in python3-proton-vpn-lib_0.1.1_amd64.deb:

Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Source: https://github.com/ProtonVPN/
Upstream-Name: python3-proton-vpn-local-agent

Files:
 *
Copyright: 2023 Proton AG <opensource@proton.me>
License: GPL-3
 The full text of the GPL version 3 is distributed in
 /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3 on Debian systems.

Interestingly, the file says Upstream-Name: python3-proton-vpn-local-agent, which seems to be referencing https://github.com/ProtonVPN/local-agent-rs/tree/stable/python-proton-vpn-local-agent.

But I guess it may be a copy-and-paste error, because local-agent-rs seems to be a different library than python3-proton-vpn-lib, and local-agent-rs has no 0.1.1 version - local-agent-rs starts from version 1.0.0 and the latest is 1.4.5.

[antermin]

They have published it:
https://github.com/ProtonVPN/proton-vpn-lib

[calexandru2018]

Yeh sorry for the delay guys, all packages are out.

[proletarius101]

@calexandru2018 Is the binary status repository required to build the packet? https://github.com/ProtonVPN/proton-vpn-lib/blob/a1d0d02bb3f2b96693434297fe9cb0ea9361accb/proton_vpn_lib_rs/Cargo.toml#L14

If so, would you mind making this repository public as well?

[antermin]

I'm reopening the issue because it seems that the proton-vpn-binary-status repository is required to build the Rust module in proton_vpn_lib_rs (a .so file).

Without the Rust module, you probably can't get a proper python3-proton-vpn-lib package.

[calexandru2018]

Guys we're going to remove proton-vpn-lib as dependency in a very soon update, as it depends on other projects that are managed by other internal teams. Stay tuned for the update for core-api.

[calexandru2018]

Quick update, by next week we'll have a new version that will not require this as a dependency, until then you can if you really want to build it just edit the files and remove the dependency, otherwise wait until next week for new release.

[proletarius101]

@calexandru2018 https://github.com/ProtonVPN/proton-vpn-lib/ is gone again 😢

[antermin]

@calexandru2018

I wanted to check in on the new version you mentioned on September 24, which was expected "by next week."

Could you please provide an update on when we might see the release?

[proletarius101]

@calexandru2018 Just wondering if you have time to make https://github.com/ProtonVPN/proton-vpn-lib/ public again?