PaulHowarth/Blog/2022-04-12

Tuesday 12th April 2022

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Config-General to 2.65 in Rawhide:

  • Updated perl-Math-Pari to 2.030523 (see Changes for details)

  • Retired perl-Crypt-RSA from Rawhide

  • The perl-Crypt-RSA package was introduced in Fedora as part of the dependency chain for perl-Net-SSH-Perl. That package has since moved to using perl-CryptX instead so there is nothing left in Fedora that depends on perl-Crypt-RSA.

  • 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 due to the difficulty in packaging that module, but that implementation doesn't look to have gained any traction.

  • I am therefore retiring the perl-Crypt-RSA package, along with some other packages that are only used as part of the dependency tree for perl-Crypt-RSA:

    • perl-Crypt-Primes

    • perl-Crypt-Random

    • perl-Math-Pari

    • libpari23


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