Re: Bug#536888: ITP: tlock -- Terminal locker
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Ryan Kavanagh <ryanakca@kubuntu.org> (14/07/2009):
> This package will also provide the library packages librpass0 and librpass0-dev,
> with long description:
>
> Static library installed with tlock, it provides a function readpass() that
> reads in a password string from standard input of process and returns it back,
> AS IS, to the calling application. While fetching password from standard
> input, readpass first turns off the echo of input characters and the
> generation of signals through keystrokes, reads in the password, turns the
> character echo and signal generation back on, and returns to the calling
> application a character pointer pointing at the password string.
Do we really need this standalone library?! And please, pretty please,
stop putting the SONAME in the -dev package name when it isn't needed.
(Also, the first word of the description for this dynamic library is
“static”?)
Mraw,
KiBi.
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