From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932345AbeCPLOM (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2018 07:14:12 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f67.google.com ([74.125.82.67]:55026 "EHLO mail-wm0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753865AbeCPLOK (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2018 07:14:10 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AG47ELsepo94XVYBZQmMFpAWXSuXnfUPAKGP4oKx74hOGtoTCLzvFscdVE4v7deumUCj3DLKlwGFQA== From: =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason To: Junio C Hamano Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel , git-packagers@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.17.0-rc0 References: User-agent: Debian GNU/Linux 9.3 (stretch); Emacs 25.1.1; mu4e 1.1.0 In-reply-to: Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 12:14:06 +0100 Message-ID: <87fu50e0ht.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.