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

[Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 10:47:02AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> 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.

For purely testing purposes you could rely on a local diversion.  
(Install as a different library name, divert libcrypt, symlink.) Or you 
just build the package with the final names and force the conflicts. But 
the usable and working version demands a coordinated libc package.

Mike Stone