tag 624685 + pending fixed-upstream
thanks

reflum

On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 18:20 +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> We from the Debian Perl Group would like to drop libdigest-sha1-perl
> at some point, see [1]. Most of the functionality (except
> sha1_transform) of Digest::SHA1 is also provided by Digest::SHA.
> Switching from Digest::SHA1 to Digest::SHA should be in principle as
> easy as substituting the use of Digest::SHA1 with Digest::SHA.
> 
> Digest::SHA is in Perl core since version 5.9.3 and thus is in
> Debian's perl since Lenny.
> 
> Changing use of Digest::SHA1 to Digest::SHA would thus reduce external
> dependencies by one.
> 
>  [1] http://deb.li/digestsha

thanks for the info. Just tested it and it produced exactly the same
output for both modules. It also works on etch (which is still in the
list of systems upstream needs to care about).


> Both bin/sc2vclt and bin/xiph2vclt use Digest::SHA1 qw(sha1). But the
> very same functionality is provided by Digest::SHA. Changing the use
> of Digest::SHA1 to Digest::SHA will thus allow to drop the Depends on
> libdigest-sha1-perl.
> 
> Could you plase change this (and too apply upstream)?

commited the changes to upstream. Upload to Debian will be done within
the next days.

-- 
Philipp.
 (Rah of PH2)

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