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libdigest-sha1-perl package

Package libdigest-sha1-perl is missing from Precise Pangolin

Asked by James Cort

I need Digest/SHA1.pm. Being as this is provided by libdigest-sha1-perl (available in oneiric as well as upstream Debian Sid), I was going to install it directly from the Ubuntu repository:

$ sudo apt-get install libdigest-sha1-perl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libdigest-sha1-perl

Checking in packages.ubuntu.com shows that there's nothing wrong with my installation; the package itself is entirely absent from 12.04 in its current form.

I think it should be present.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Report a bug. Precise is not ready and not stable so you may find things are missing but get added later

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Will Daniels (wdaniels) said : 		#2

NB: Still missing post-release :(

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Anders Aagaard (aagaande) said : 		#3

The functionality of this package is duplicated in libdigest-sha-perl, some software might need to be ported though.

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mcguire (jonathand131-gmail) said : 		#4

Could we know what are the differences between libdigest-sha1-perl and libdigest-sha-perl or the reason of the rename ?

The rename (if it is just a rename) doesn't concern only the package name but also modules' name.
For example, SHA1.pm appears to be SHA.pm in this package.
This kind of change is not without consequences.

Regards.

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Anders Aagaard (aagaande) said : 		#5

Don't think it is a rename, I think libdigest-sha1-perl came first, then libdigest-sha-perl implemented it's features, but of course with a slightly different module name (and possibly slightly different API).

I just checked the deleted package reason off the servers to see why the package was missing in the first place.

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Bruno Medeiros (brunojcm) said : 		#6

Nobody reported the bug?

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Bruno Medeiros (brunojcm) said : 		#7

Well, I created now.

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Bruno Medeiros (brunojcm) said : 		#8

Please mark the related bug as affecting you.

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