Re: Proposal: drop libcrypt-dev dependency from libc6-dev

2025-05-31 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hello fellow developers, On Sun, Apr 13, 2025 at 05:25:59PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > All of the perl ones have been filed and gregor already fixed (thanks!) > a significant fraction including all 11 perl-xs-dev ones. I > guess that on third of these is fixed in git or unstable. I guess half

Re: Proposal: drop libcrypt-dev dependency from libc6-dev

2025-04-13 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hello fellow developers, On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 07:37:32AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > how about libc6-dev stops depending on libcrypt-dev? with minor disagreement in details, I have received much positive feedback and therefore moved forward. > So far so good. That's 1 + 95 + 11 + 1 = 108 so

Re: Proposal: drop libcrypt-dev dependency from libc6-dev

2025-04-10 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi, On 2025-04-10 07:37, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Hello fellow developers, [ Snip ] > Question 1: Do you see important aspects missed in this analysis? No > Question 2: Do you agree that this change is worth the effort? I don't know. I do not see a huge benefit from the glibc point of view, bu

Re: Proposal: drop libcrypt-dev dependency from libc6-dev

2025-04-10 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Marco, On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 11:01:24AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 10, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > how about libc6-dev stops depending on libcrypt-dev? > Sure. Thanks for the feedback. > > material of course. Also libc6-dev would still "Recommends: > > libcrypt-dev", but libcrypt-de

Re: Proposal: drop libcrypt-dev dependency from libc6-dev

2025-04-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 10, Helmut Grohne wrote: how about libc6-dev stops depending on libcrypt-dev? Sure. material of course. Also libc6-dev would still "Recommends: libcrypt-dev", but libcrypt-dev would no longer be build-essential. What purpose would this Recommends solve? Assuming "no" and "yes" as a