On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 03:49:59PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> We from the Debian Perl Group -- as you might read already -- 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.
> 
> 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
> 
> This seems indeed "fixed" in developer release upstream, or adapted upstream 
> in
> version 1.030099_001:
> 
> 1.030099_001 Nov 06 2010

[snip]

> With adding support for HMAC-SHA256 they changed module to use
> Digest::SHA.
> 
> Would it be possible to update package version to this, if upstream
> does not release new version in near future?

Thanks for pointing this out. As it happens I was looking at that
version recently for other reasons. I'll look at updating the package
as you suggest.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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