Re: Bug#904019: ITP: libxcrypt -- Extended crypt library for DES, MD5, Blowfish and others

[Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>]

On Jul 20, Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> wrote:

> 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.)
At this point it is not an experiment anymore since Fedora switched and 
removal from glibc is still planned for a future release.
I just wanted to have something usable and working before starting to 
discuss a transition plan.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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