Bug#941853: crypt(3) should be provided by libxcrypt

2019-10-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
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 compatibl

Bug#941853: crypt(3) should be provided by libxcrypt

2019-10-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 06, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > 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 provides both, but currently I am not even building libcrypt.so.2 sin

Bug#941853: crypt(3) should be provided by libxcrypt

2019-10-06 Thread Aurelien Jarno
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? > > Th

Bug#941853: crypt(3) should be provided by libxcrypt

2019-10-06 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2019-10-06 22:04, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 06, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > 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 provides both, bu

Bug#941853: crypt(3) should be provided by libxcrypt

2019-10-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 06, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Ah this doesn't match the version in unstable, it's only in NEW for now. > I guess we need to wait for it to get out of there first. For reasons which I do not understand, the ftpmasters obliquely let me know that they will not accept libxcrypt from NEW until t

Bug#941853: crypt(3) should be provided by libxcrypt

2019-10-06 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2019-10-07 00:00, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 06, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > Ah this doesn't match the version in unstable, it's only in NEW for now. > > I guess we need to wait for it to get out of there first. > For reasons which I do not understand, the ftpmasters obliquely let me > know

Bug#941853: crypt(3) should be provided by libxcrypt

2019-10-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 07, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Dear debian-boot: for the benefit of the ftpmasters, please confirm that you have no objections to src:libxcrypt generating a libcrypt1-udeb package (initially in experimental) which will provide crypt(3) currently in the libc udeb. > I guess we should keep bu