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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.17.0-rc0

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 16, 2018, 11:14 UTC
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On Fri, Mar 16 2018, Junio C. Hamano jotted:
>       gitweb: hard-depend on the Digest::MD5 5.8 module

I've just noticed this now, but while this module is in 5.8 RedHat's butchered perl doesn't have it in the base system, thus this introduces the do-we-even-care regression that git's full test suite won't pass on a RedHat (or CentOS) base system, because the gitweb tests will fail to "use" Digest::MD5.

I'm slightly leaning towards not caring about it, since there's no other perl distributor that does this sort of split-out of the core, and if you're on a RedHat system they're solving your package problems, so this really only impacts the edge case of git developers and redhat packagers, both of whom can just do "yum install -y perl-Digest-MD5" to fix it.

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  1. Junio C HamanoMar 16, 2018
  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMar 16, 2018
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 16, 2018
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 16, 2018
  5. RelNotes: add details on Perl module changesTodd Zullinger, Mar 16, 2018
  6. Todd ZullingerMar 16, 2018
  7. Junio C HamanoMar 16, 2018

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