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

[Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>]

On 06/25/2018 04:20 PM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, fixed locally.

Florian