Hi On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 04:21:01PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2012-07-12 16:04, Gergely Nagy wrote: > > "Dmitry E. Oboukhov" <un...@debian.org> writes: > > > >> Package: wnpp > >> Severity: wishlist > >> Owner: Dmitry E. Oboukhov <un...@debian.org> > >> > >> Package name : libdigest-sha1-perl > >> Version : 2.13 > >> Upstream Author : Gisle Aas <gi...@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.
Yes, please don't introduce again libdigest-sha1-perl. The Debian Perl Group did quite an amount of work on removing it from the archive[1]. [1]: http://deb.li/digestsha Instead the modules depending on Digest::SHA1 should be patched (also upstream) to use Digest::SHA. See the wiki-Page for templates to send to upstream to explain why. Regards, Salvatore
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