Hi, * Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de> [2007-05-04 18:38]: > Hello Sam, > > Am 2007-05-02 19:06:09, schrieb Sam Morris: > > On Wed, 02 May 2007 19:19:53 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > > I have goten an older source which has some problems to compile under > > > Sid. After reading a bunch of "manpages-dev" I have seen that "getpass" > > > is obsolete and I should not use it. > > > > Although the getpass man page (dated from seven years ago!) says this, > > glibc's actual documentation[0] does not mention any problems with the > > getpass function--so I don't see any particular reason to avoid it. > > > > [0] http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/getpass.html#index- > > getpass-3653 > > Should I submit a bugreport/patch againt "manpages-dev"? Wishlist please. Kind regards Nico -- Nico Golde - http://ngolde.de - nion@jabber.ccc.de - GPG: 0x73647CFF For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted. http://people.debian.org/~nion/sponsoring-checklist.html
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