Re: Proposal: drop libcrypt-dev dependency from libc6-dev

[Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 at 07:37:32 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> how about libc6-dev stops depending on libcrypt-dev?

I think this is a good idea for early in the forky cycle.

> I also investigated
> all apt-cache rdepends libcrypt1. That results in 151 source packages.
...
> * steam-installer

This particular one is a false positive, it hard-codes a dependency on 
libcrypt1 (or more precisely libcrypt1 | libc6 (<< 2.29-4)) as one of 
the SONAMEs that Steam relies on the host system to provide (because it 
was historically part of glibc). It shouldn't need a -dev build-dependency 
for this purpose.

    smcv