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



On Sat, 31 Aug 2019 15:04:06 +0200 Aurelien Jarno wrote:

> On 2019-08-25 15:51, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 13:46:36 +0200 Florian Weimer wrote:
> > 
> > > * Francesco Poli:
> > > 
> > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > We provided a solution acceptable to the reporter.  I do not think
> > > further action is needed on the glibc side.  The manual page needs to
> > > be updated to reflect the change, but that's not part of glibc.
> > 
> > OK, good.
> > Thanks for your prompt reply!
> > 
> > Why is the bug report being kept open, though?
> > Should it be reassigned to package manpages-dev and fixed there?
> 
> manpages-dev doesn't provide the manpage for crypt(3) anymore.

Oops, I hadn't noticed that.
Thanks a lot for clarifying!

> It is now
> provided by libcrypt2-dev. The crypt functions are getting removed from
> the glibc and will be provided by this external library. I guess we'll
> do the transition after getting glibc 2.29 into unstable.
> 
> As the version provided by libcrypt2-dev doesn't have the reported
> issue, I am closing the bug.

Good, thanks for stepping in!

Bye.


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