tags 591039 + patch
quit

Ansgar Burchardt wrote:

> git depends on libdigest-sha1-perl, but does not seem to use it
> anywhere.  I search for "Digest::" in the source package, but only found
> references to Digest::MD5.

It was for the ancient git-rerere script[1] which has been rewritten
in C now.  Good catch; thanks!

[1] /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/examples/git-rerere.perl
-- 8< --
Subject: remove unnecessary dependency on Digest::SHA1

Now that rerere is built in, Git does not need to depend on
Digest::SHA1.

Reported-by: Ansgar Burchardt <ans...@2008.43-1.org>
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diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 32ed798..001d7b4 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Vcs-Git: http://smarden.org/git/git.git/
 
 Package: git
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, perl-modules, liberror-perl, libdigest-sha1-perl,
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, perl-modules, liberror-perl,
  libc6.1 (>= 2.10.2-6) [ia64]
 Recommends: patch, less, rsync, ssh-client
 Suggests: git-doc, git-arch, git-cvs, git-svn, git-email, git-daemon-run, 
git-gui, gitk, gitweb
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