On Sat, 21 Nov 2015 03:25:00 +0600
Denis Fateyev <de...@fateyev.com> wrote:

> Hello there,
> 
> I'm going to package CryptX Perl module [1] soon.
> 
> The only concern is that it contains a lot of XS-based code of
> ciphers and hashes that can be probably considered as bundled. Mostly
> the used routines, including sha1, sha2 and md5 implementations, are
> based on LibTomCrypt library [2, 3].
> 
> Neither this library components nor all algo related are mentioned in
> Bundled library policies [4]. So the question is: should we threat
> this very case as bundled libs presence? Are there any objections
> against this module to be packaged "as is", in its current state?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> [1] https://metacpan.org/pod/CryptX
> 
> [2] http://www.libtom.net
> 
> [3] https://github.com/libtom/libtomcrypt
> 
> [4]
> https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries&oldid=406058

As a data point of interest, I unbundled libtomcrypt from python-crypto
when it became possible:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1087557

Paul.
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