#1146025 ITP: python-asn1tools -- ASN.1 parsing, encoding and decoding

#1146025#5
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2026-08-29 08:41:32 UTC
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* Package name    : python-asn1tools
  Version         : 0.167.0
  Upstream Contact: Erik Moqvist <erik.moqvist@gmail.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/eerimoq/asn1tools
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : ASN.1 parsing, encoding and decoding

Supported codecs:
  * Basic Encoding Rules (BER)
  * Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER)
  * Generic String Encoding Rules (GSER)
  * JSON Encoding Rules (JER)
  * Basic Octet Encoding Rules (OER)
  * Aligned Packed Encoding Rules (PER)
  * Unaligned Packed Encoding Rules (UPER)
  * XML Encoding Rules (XER)

This is a dependency for netexec. I intend to maintain this package in the Debian Python team.

#1146025#10
Date:
2026-08-30 07:45:00 UTC
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The source contains a BCP78-licensed [1] test data [2], referenced by an example and a few tests.

I don't feel comfortable navigating legal topics (for now, being a new Debian contributor), so instead I asked the upstream [3] and a fork [4] if they could find an alternative test file.

I have purged the source repo [5] and will park this ITP for now. Feel free to pick up.

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4511/
[2] https://github.com/eerimoq/asn1tools/blob/master/tests/files/ietf/rfc4511.asn
[3] https://github.com/eerimoq/asn1tools/issues/203
[4] https://github.com/boxtheta/asn1tools-ext/issues/4
[5] https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-asn1tools/