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Re: Bug#696836: RFP: libmath-pari-perl -- Perl bindings for PARI



On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 05:22:44PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52689
> 
> It looks like there's some rough consensus to have the PARI-less
> Crypt::RSA become the new version of Crypt::RSA soon.  I was planning to
> ITP it when that happens (though i might also consider packaging
> Alt::Crypt::RSA::BigInt first, if anyone with deeper debian-perl
> knowledge can provide guidance on how "Ingy's Alt namespace idea" might
> interact with debian packaging).

Excellent.

> > I'd like to point out that several other modules are missing for
> > Crypt::OpenPGP to be functional without using cpan.  I can open RFPs for
> > those if there's interest in packaging them.
> 
> Which modules are those?  I haven't looked at the chain in a little
> while, but i thought we'd packaged up most of the rest of the non-PARI
> dependencies.  I'm probably wrong :)

As far as direct dependencies:

Crypt::RIPEMD160
Digest::SHA1 (although I'm happy to patch this to use Digest::SHA)
Crypt::CAST5_PP (Crypt::CAST5 can likely be used instead)
Crypt::IDEA
Crypt::RSA

We don't need to patch out Crypt::IDEA since all the patents have
expired.

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