Zenaan Harkness <z...@freedbms.net> writes: > On 4/9/14, Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran+deb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Zenaan Harkness <z...@freedbms.net> writes: >>> Any idea why the following: >>> >>> $ dpkg -s debmirror|grep Status >>> Status: install ok installed >>> >>> $ apt-cache show debmirror|grep Depends >>> Depends: perl (>= 5.10), libnet-perl, libdigest-md5-perl, >>> libdigest-sha-perl, liblockfile-simple-perl, rsync, bzip2, libwww-perl >>> (>= 5.815), libnet-inet6glue-perl >>> >>> $ dpkg -s libdigest-sha-perl|grep Status >>> dpkg-query: package 'libdigest-sha-perl' is not installed and no >>> information is available >> >> The perl package provides libdigest-sha-perl. >> https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libdigest-sha-perl > > So why is it also a separate package? It is clear I am not > understanding something here. >
I'm not sure either. Perhaps the libdigest-sha-perl package was introduced at some point in the past when Digest::SHA was not yet included in the perl package itself. If you absolutely must get to the bottom of this, try asking on the #debian-perl IRC channel or the debian-perl mailing list. -- regards, kushal
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