Hi, On 2019-10-06 17:55, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Package: glibc > Version: 2.29-2 > Severity: normal > > The libc implementation of crypt(3) has been deprecated since 2.28. > libxcrypt is needed to support modern hashing algorithms. > > How do you want to coordinate switching to libxcrypt? > > The libxcrypt implementation is source and binary backward compatible, > so no transitions are needed. I think that we only need to coordinate > Replaces/Depends.
The libxcrypt implementation is indeed source backward compatible, however doesn't seem binary backward compatible. libc6 provides libcrypt.so.1 while libxcrypt provides libcrypt.so.2. It is therefore not possible to build glibc with --disable-crypt. I guess what we can do is to remove crypt.h, libcrypt.a and libcrypt.so from libc6-dev and add a depends on libcrypt2-dev to libc6-dev. On its side, libcrypt2-dev should break and replace libc6-dev with the right version. There should be no need to add a depends from libc6 to libcrypt2 as the two libraries have a different soname and thus are co-installable. If that sounds ok, I guess we can do that in the next glibc upload. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
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