tags 511069 wontfix
thanks
-=| Damyan Ivanov, Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 10:56:46AM +0200 |=-
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
>
> * Package name : libcrypt-salt-perl
>
> The package is a dependency of 'clive-utils', which is spun-off 'clive'
> upstream and rewritten in Perl.
>
> FTP-masters, the actual code in this package would be the following
> function, the rest is POD, makefiles etc stuff.
>
> sub salt
> {
> my $length = 2;
> $length = $_[0] if exists $_[0];
>
> return join "", ('.', '/', 0..9, 'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z')[map {rand 64} (1..$length)];
> }
>
> There was a recent rejection[1] of a similar package.
>
> [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-perl-maintainers/2008-December/017000.html
clive-utils upstream just reimplemented the salt() twoliner in their
code, so the package is no longer needed.
I am tagging wontfix as the package is no-go for the reasons stated in
the reject above.
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