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Bug#924712: crypt() not available _XOPEN_SOURCE is defined



Hello everyone,
I am sorry to ask, but... I cannot understand what's the status of
[this bug report].

[this bug report]: <https://bugs.debian.org/924712>

A serious bug for libc6-dev without any apparent activity since last
March?
Sure there must have been some hidden progress that I cannot see.


I probably do not fully understand the issue: there seems to be a
transition going on, from some deprecated crypt() implementation to
libxcrypt. And this transition requires some small changes (basically
different #include and #define directives) in C code using crypt(),
if this code has to be recompiled on buster or later.
But these different requirements are not yet documented in the
appropriate [man page].

[man page]: <https://manpages.debian.org/buster/manpages-dev/crypt.3.en.html>

Is this a decent summary of the situation?

If this is the case, should this bug report be reassigned to package
manpages-dev and fixed there?


Please clarify, thanks for your time and patience!   :-)

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