Orphaning packages: mhash, aide

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:43:42 +0300, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:

> Jon Ciesla wrote:
> >> Devrim GÃœNDÃœZ wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 03:45 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> mhash
> >>>>         
> >>> I need this rpm for pam_pgsql package that I maintain in my PostgreSQL
> >>> RPM repository (and also will soon submit to Fedora for review). Even
> >>> though I have no idea how to package it, I can do my best if noone steps
> >>> up the plate.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> Thanks, I need it too, for my libgringotts.
> >>     
> >
> > I need it for limph, and I'm the EPEL co-maintainer, so I'll take it. 
> > Devrim, you're more than welcome to co-maintain.
> >   
> 
> It also needed for php (since it has a php-mhash subpackage).
> 
> AFAIK "mhash" was affiliated some way with the "mcrypt" (both had the 
> same primary site etc...). Mcrypt is maintained by Tom "spot" Callaway, 
> perhaps it is more convenient to maintain both packages by him...

They have different project sites at SF.net, but the same maintainers
and project admins.

mcrypt uses libmhash, and libmcrypt started sharing the mutils API with
libmhash, but that has not been completed.