On Wed, 23 Mar 2022 11:31:48 +0000 Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Now that we have (or will have shortly) fully CryptX-based versions of > perl-Net-SSH-Perl in F-36, F-37 and all EPELs, it looks to me that > there are no remaining dependents of perl-Crypt-RSA in Fedora (other > than the Suggests: for it in perl-Net-SSH-Perl, but I can get rid of > that in due course). > > I'm seriously considering retiring the following group of packages, > which are only currently used by perl-Crypt-RSA as far as I can tell: > > perl-Crypt-RSA > perl-Crypt-Primes > perl-Crypt-Random > perl-Math-Pari > libpari23 > > The last release of Crypt-RSA was in 2009. Dana Jacobsen created an > alternative implementation > (https://metacpan.org/dist/Alt-Crypt-RSA-BigInt) that avoided the need > for Math::Pari, which would be a big win itself, but that doesn't look > to have gained any traction. > > I introduced all of these packages (except libpari23) to Fedora back > in 2005 when I needed them as dependencies of perl-Net-SSH-Perl. The > libpari package followed in 2012 because perl-Math-Pari doesn't tend > to keep up with contemporary pari releases, and is quite painful to > package anyway. The perl-Net-SSH-Perl package no longer needs the > other ones, and neither do I. > > Does anyone see any issues with retiring these packages in Fedora? Great, no comments received so I'm going to go ahead with the retirement of these packages in Rawhide. Paul. _______________________________________________ perl-devel mailing list -- perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to perl-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
