Please build perl-Crypt-Random for epel8, or if you wish I can do that if you add me as a maintainer. My FAS username is cra. Thanks.
perl-Crypt-Random depends on perl-Math-Pari and I'd really rather not have to maintain that in EPEL-8 as it currently only builds against an old compat package for libpari. The dependency seems to come from perl-Crypt-PWSafe3, which itself prefers to use perl-Bytes-Random-Secure over perl-Crypt-Random if it's available. Unfortunately the Crypt-PWSafe3 dist still has a hard dependency on Crypt::Random but I'd rather put my effort into fixing that than building Crypt-Random and Math-Pari in EPEL-8. perl-Bytes-Random-Secure has further dependencies: * perl(Crypt::Random::Seed) * perl(Statistics::Basic) They don't look too onerous though. Would you be OK with this approach (I can help) or would you prefer to stick with Crypt::Random and you can be branch maintainer, along with perl-Math-Pari and libpari23?
(In reply to Paul Howarth from comment #1) > The dependency seems to come from perl-Crypt-PWSafe3, which itself prefers > to use perl-Bytes-Random-Secure over perl-Crypt-Random if it's available. > Unfortunately the Crypt-PWSafe3 dist still has a hard dependency on > Crypt::Random but I'd rather put my effort into fixing that than building > Crypt-Random and Math-Pari in EPEL-8. Thanks for explaining the situation. I'd be happy to fix perl-Crypt-PWSafe3. Are you suggesting changing Crypt::PWSafe to prefer Bytes::Random::Secure instead of Crypt::Random?
(In reply to Charles R. Anderson from comment #2) > (In reply to Paul Howarth from comment #1) > > The dependency seems to come from perl-Crypt-PWSafe3, which itself prefers > > to use perl-Bytes-Random-Secure over perl-Crypt-Random if it's available. > > Unfortunately the Crypt-PWSafe3 dist still has a hard dependency on > > Crypt::Random but I'd rather put my effort into fixing that than building > > Crypt-Random and Math-Pari in EPEL-8. > > Thanks for explaining the situation. I'd be happy to fix > perl-Crypt-PWSafe3. Are you suggesting changing Crypt::PWSafe to prefer > Bytes::Random::Secure instead of Crypt::Random? Yes, if you're happy with this approach I'll work on a PR to send upstream to perl-Crypt-PWSafe3 so it'll be happy with not having Crypt::Random available. I can then work on getting the dependencies of perl-Bytes-Random-Secure into EPEL-8.
(In reply to Paul Howarth from comment #3) > (In reply to Charles R. Anderson from comment #2) > > (In reply to Paul Howarth from comment #1) > > > The dependency seems to come from perl-Crypt-PWSafe3, which itself prefers > > > to use perl-Bytes-Random-Secure over perl-Crypt-Random if it's available. > > > Unfortunately the Crypt-PWSafe3 dist still has a hard dependency on > > > Crypt::Random but I'd rather put my effort into fixing that than building > > > Crypt-Random and Math-Pari in EPEL-8. > > > > Thanks for explaining the situation. I'd be happy to fix > > perl-Crypt-PWSafe3. Are you suggesting changing Crypt::PWSafe to prefer > > Bytes::Random::Secure instead of Crypt::Random? > > Yes, if you're happy with this approach I'll work on a PR to send upstream > to perl-Crypt-PWSafe3 so it'll be happy with not having Crypt::Random > available. I can then work on getting the dependencies of > perl-Bytes-Random-Secure into EPEL-8. That would be excellent. Thank you.
PR for Crypt-PWSafe3: https://github.com/TLINDEN/Crypt--PWSafe3/pull/11
Moving to Bug #1841308