On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:24:02 +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> Hi Perl people,
Hi Hurd guys :)
> The short story is: we, Debian Hurd packagers, would like to see
> Digest::SHA moved from "perl" to "perl-base".
>
> We are preparing to upload from debian-ports to Debian main a simple
> Hurd translator, random-egd, to provide /dev/{,u}random devices. This
> translator interfaces to a small init.d service written in Perl, a
> slightly modified version of EGD (egd.pl). egd.pl uses sha1() from
> Digest::SHA1 (which we changed to Digest::SHA, as Digest::SHA1 is
> deprecated).
> The problem is that we need random-egd as dependency of the "hurd"
> package (essential on hurd), so it must be essential too; although,
> currently it cannot because Digest::SHA is in "perl", which is not an
> essential package. Our proposal is whether you could move Digest::SHA
> from "perl" to "perl-base".
>
> (PS: please CC me in replies, as I'm not subscribed)
CC'ing the perl maintainers (the Perl Group is "only" for packacging
modules, not the interpreter itself).
Cheers,
gregor
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