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[gregor herrmann <2122108@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2025 14:11:24 -0000, Ioanna Alifieraki wrote:

>Required TODOs:
>1. Symbols tracking not in place.

Hm?
I don't know a single (arch:any) perl package with a symbols file.

>3. There are 3 packages in Suggested and Recommended that are not in main:
>autoconf-archive, libmail-box-perl, lynx.
>Could you please raise the issue in the next mir meeting to be decided whether
>these packages shall be pulled in main.

 From the debian/control file (in my local clone of the Debian 
packaging repo):

#v+
Package: libcrypt-urandom-perl
Architecture: any
Depends: ${misc:Depends},
          ${perl:Depends},
          ${shlibs:Depends}
#v-

Also (debian/unstrable again):

#v+
% apt-cache show --no-all-versions libcrypt-urandom-perl
Package: libcrypt-urandom-perl
Version: 0.54-1
Installed-Size: 57
Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Architecture: amd64
Depends: perl (>= 5.40.1-2), perlapi-5.40.1, libc6 (>= 2.25)
Description-en: module that provides non blocking randomness
  Crypt::Urandom is intended to provide an interface to the strongest available
  source of non-blocking randomness on the current platform.
  .
  Platforms currently supported are anything supporting /dev/urandom.
Description-md5: 6133e8558e5e0b4fa01f4b8866eba2a6
Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Crypt-URandom
Tag: devel::lang:perl, devel::library, implemented-in::perl
Section: perl
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/libc/libcrypt-urandom-perl/libcrypt-urandom-perl_0.54-1_amd64.deb
Size: 15532
MD5sum: b1a1ae2fcccc4b7ab87096194e46564f
SHA256: 2e6ba4b7af2c06ea7eca6a4306b8471415e0ec099d605528509be9aa00fd512b
#v-

I don't see any Recommends or Suggests anywhere.


As a side note, libcrypt-urandom-perl is a reverse dependency of 
about a dozen perl packages, probably more in the future.


Cheers,
gregor, Debian Perl Group

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  [MIR] libcrypt-urandom-perl as a dependency of libauthen-sasl-perl

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