Re: Bug#904019: ITP: libxcrypt -- Extended crypt library for DES, MD5, Blowfish and others
On 20.07.2018 10:18, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jul 20, Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> wrote:
>> Make sure that glibc splits out libcrypt into its own package, have libc6
>> depend on it and then provide libcrypt1? (Because it's really providing
>> libcrypt's ABI from another package.) Versioning might be tricky, though.
> At some point glibc will just stop building libcrypt, I am looking for
> an interim solution that will not require coordination with the glibc
> maintainers.
I think it's odd to say "here, I'm packaging up a replacement for your
library, but I'm not going to coordinate with you" when we are preparing
a (somewhat) coherent distribution, so I don't think that option should
be discarded. (Unless you have a reasonable worry that you experiment
will fail and hence don't want to bother people, I guess.)
Kind regards
Philipp Kern
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