From 86853dc3d05909b9097fcb697a8f2af8f7853f73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sajith Sasidharan <sajith@hcoop.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 13:25:52 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Use forked release of txi2p for Python 3 support

We've poked https://github.com/str4d/txi2p/issues/10 a few times with
requests for a new release, with scant success.  So txi2p-tahoe is a
thing now.
---
 newsfragments/3633.installation | 1 +
 setup.py                        | 6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 newsfragments/3633.installation

diff --git a/newsfragments/3633.installation b/newsfragments/3633.installation
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8f6d7efdd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/newsfragments/3633.installation
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Tahoe-LAFS now uses a forked version of txi2p (named txi2p-tahoe) with Python 3 support.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ed48bf789..13a16da40 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -151,8 +151,10 @@ tor_requires = [
 ]
 
 i2p_requires = [
-    # txi2p has Python 3 support, but it's unreleased: https://github.com/str4d/txi2p/issues/10.
-    "txi2p; python_version < '3.0'",
+    # txi2p has Python 3 support, but it's unreleased (see
+    # https://github.com/str4d/txi2p/issues/10). We could use a fork until
+    # txi2p's maintainers are back in action.
+    "txi2p-tahoe",
 ]
 
 if len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] == '--fakedependency':