Bug#681346: ITP: libdigest-sha1-perl -- Perl interface to the SHA-1 algorithm

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2012-07-12 16:04, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> "Dmitry E. Oboukhov" <unera@debian.org> writes:
> 
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Owner: Dmitry E. Oboukhov <unera@debian.org>
>>
>>  Package name    : libdigest-sha1-perl
>>  Version         : 2.13
>>  Upstream Author : Gisle Aas <gisle@activestate.com>
>>  URL             : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Digest-SHA1/
>>  License         : Artistic or GPL-1+
>>  Programming Lang: Perl
>>  Description     : Perl interface to the SHA-1 algorithm
>>
>>  The Digest::SHA1 module allows you to use the NIST SHA-1 message digest
>>  algorithm from within Perl programs. The algorithm takes as input a message
>>  of arbitrary length and produces as output a 160-bit "fingerprint" or
>>  "message digest" of the input.
>>  .
>>  The Digest::SHA1 module provide a procedural interface for simple use, as
>>  well as an object oriented interface that can handle messages of arbitrary
>>  length and which can read files directly.
> 
> Out of curiosity, how does this compare to Digest::SHA
> (libdigest-sha-perl), which is already in the archive, and supports SHA1
> and a couple of others too?
> 
> Digest::SHA appears to have a very similar interface too.
> 

Hi,

The package has been in the archive before, but was removed (see
#594273).  As I understand it, Digest::SHA1 should be redundant, but I
might have overlooked something.

~Niels