On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If there was a library that made just sha1 (or even just hashes) available > we might consider it -- I know when we've discussed md5 before we've > lamented the fact that there's no libmd5 that was lightweight, had a simple > API, and in Fedora, that we could tell people to look into using instead. > But due to the lack of such a library we've never had to set precedent on > whether to force maintainers to do that port instead of bundling. gnulib provides sha1.c/des.c/md5.c and so on. My opinion is that we should encourage using such files from gnulib at least and state Provides: bundeld(gnulib) only instead of providing more and more Provides: bundled([cryptotype]-[authors]) Thanks. Yours sincerely, Christopher Meng Noob here. http://cicku.me -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging