Hi Perl people,
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)
Thanks,
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Pino Toscano
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