Package: lintian Version: 2.5.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi Lintian Maintainers
We from the Debian Perl Group would like to go forward the goal to drop libdigest-sha1-perl. As you can read from [1], most of the functionality which is provided by Digest::SHA1 is also provided by Digest::SHA. Thus switching from rom Digest::SHA1 to Digest::SHA should be in principle as easy as substituting the use of Digest::SHA1 with Digest::SHA. Furthermore: Digest::SHA is in Perl core since version 5.9.3 and thus is in Debian's perl since Lenny and thus changing this will too reduce the external dependencies by one. For more details please see [2]. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/594273 [2] http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/OpenTasks/Transitions/DigestSHA1ToDigestSHA The attached patch adds libdigest-sha1-perl to the list of the obsoleted packages, would it be possible to add it? Regards Salvatore -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>From 29be5a84c4977f6d4b2e64fc6fcf9eff8672f8ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:54:54 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] add libdigest-sha1-perl to the obsoleted packages --- data/fields/obsolete-packages | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/data/fields/obsolete-packages b/data/fields/obsolete-packages index e4f2a17..0180df4 100644 --- a/data/fields/obsolete-packages +++ b/data/fields/obsolete-packages @@ -60,3 +60,5 @@ xutils # Last seen in Squeeze default-jdk-builddep +# See: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/OpenTasks/Transitions/DigestSHA1ToDigestSHA +libdigest-sha1-perl -- 1.7.5.4
