Re: [PATCH] New configure option --disable-crypt.

["Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv at altlinux dot org>]

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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