On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 07:20:44AM +0100, Sebastien Marie wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 05:27:25PM -0500, Daniel Dickman wrote: > > > > > > > On Nov 23, 2018, at 2:39 PM, Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > The math/pari port remains at version 2.1.7 from 2005 (!). In the > > > meantime, upstream has released a stream of new versions up to > > > 2.11.0 earlier this year. If there is so little interest in > > > maintaining the port, we might as well delete it. > > > > there were a few attempts to update it but their were some perl > > dependencies that have never been updated if i remember and so pari could > > not be updated. > > > > i’d rather delete those perl dependencies and update pari than delete pari. > > > > There is a somehow "long" chain of reverse dependencies. > > - math/pari > - math/p5-Math-Pari > - math/p5-Math-BigInt-Pari > - security/p5-Crypt-Random > - security/p5-Crypt-DH > - security/p5-Crypt-Primes > - security/p5-Crypt-RSA > - security/p5-Crypt-OpenPGP > > > I see that math/p5-Math-Pari recently got upstream update (15 Sep 2018: > 2.030507) > > According to the README of Math-Pari, it means the perl module should fully > support at least pari-2.3.4: > > Integer part and the first 4 digits after the point in the version > of Math::Pari reflect the latest version of GP/PARI it was tested with. > (2.01080* still fully supports only 2.1.7, but mostly works with 2.3.* > too.) > > It is a good thing, as latest pari update was stopped at the latest 2.1.* > version because of incomptabilities with 2.3 branch.
pari 2.3.5 was released Feb 05 2010, and after a quick search it does not seem that p5-Math-Pari can build on more recent versions. For cryptography, relying on old unmaintained versions of pari does not seem reasonable. > > -- > Sebastien Marie >
