From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] New configure option --disable-crypt.
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:20:50 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180625142050.GA26140@altlinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180625134403.2B6DC43994575@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>
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On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 03:44:03PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
[...]
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index d43d11dce1..556db82643 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -127,6 +127,18 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
> binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
> and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
>
> +* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
> + library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
> + keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
> + to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
> + 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
> + need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from the separate project.
from a separate project.
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ldv
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-25 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-25 13:44 [PATCH] New configure option --disable-crypt Florian Weimer
2018-06-25 13:47 ` Florian Weimer
2018-06-25 14:20 ` Dmitry V. Levin [this message]
2018-06-25 14:28 ` Florian Weimer
2018-06-28 17:33 ` Dmitry V. Levin
2018-06-28 18:23 ` Florian Weimer
2018-06-28 21:20 ` Dmitry V. Levin
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