On 30 January 2012 at 00:22, Andreas Tille wrote: | Hi Carlos, | | thanks for your ITP. | | On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 06:14:30PM -0500, Carlos Borroto wrote: | > Package: wnpp | > Severity: wishlist | > Owner: Carlos Borroto <carlos.borr...@gmail.com> | > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-...@lists.debian.org | > | > | > * Package name: r-cran-digest | > Version: 0.5.1 | > Upstream Author: Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> | | Well, Dirk is the main packager of R software inside Debian. If he is | upstream of some software but did not packaged it for Debian, he might | have his reasons to do so. I would like Dirk to comment on this ITP | before uploading something.
I'll do it. The package turned out to be a) relatively widely used for all the caching things that use it as a base and b) changes rarely. I'll make an initial upload in a few days. Thanks for the heads-up! Dirk | | Kind regards | | Andreas. | | > * URL: http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/digest.html | > * License: GPL-2+ | > Programming Lang: C | > Description: Create cryptographic hash digests of R objects | > | > The digest package provides a function 'digest()' for the creation of | > hash digests of arbitrary R objects (using the md5, sha-1, sha-256 and | > crc32 algorithms) permitting easy comparison of R language objects, as | > well as a function 'hmac()' to create hash-based message | > authentication code. The md5 algorithm by Ron Rivest is specified in | > RFC 1321, the SHA-1 and SHA-256 algorithms are specified in FIPS-180-1 | > and FIPS-180-2, and the crc32 algorithm is described in | > ftp://ftp.rocksoft.com/cliens/rocksoft/papers/crc_v3.txt. For md5, | > sha-1 and sha-256, this packages uses small standalone implementations | > that were provided by Christophe Devine. For crc32, code from the zlib | > library is used. Please note that this package is not meant to be | > deployed for cryptographic purposes for which more comprehensive (and | > widely tested) libraries such as OpenSSL should be used. | > | > | > | > -- | > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org | > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org | > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cabgghblx657esrqodh1nxsm-37uhhcua+7v2wfrt_+pzs08...@mail.gmail.com | > | > | | -- | http://fam-tille.de -- "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20261.55666.212694.522...@max.nulle.part