Bug#637231: Moving Digest::SHA to perl-base

[Dominic Hargreaves]

Package: perl-base
Severity: wishlist

On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 12:31:43AM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> 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).

This sounds like a reasonable request. Filing this as a wishlist bug.

Digest::SHA also uses Digest::base and MIME::Base64, which will also need
moving. 

Niko, any comments?

Cheers,
Dominic.

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