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regarding md5pass utility does not work due to missing perl dependency
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Package: syslinux-common
Version: 2:4.05+dfsg-6+deb7u1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/md5pass
/usr/bin/md5pass utility is a part of syslinux-common package.
The package recommends, but not depends, on libcrypt-passwdmd5-perl.
I'm not sure this is really a bug or a feature - on one hand, I
don't really want an extra dependency, on another hand, keeping
non-working executables in /usr/bin is ugly. Maybe we may
move md5pass out of common public binary dir?
Note also that this utility accepts original password in clear
on command line, making it somewhat difficult to hide it.
Thanks,
/mjt
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On 06/01/2013 11:44 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> The package recommends, but not depends, on libcrypt-passwdmd5-perl.
> I'm not sure this is really a bug or a feature
in wheezy, it's a feature (to have syslinux-common not pull in perl foo
when it's being use by live-build, debian-cd, and debian-installer to
provide the necessary bootloader files)
for >> wheezy, md5pass has been moved to syslinux-utils, but it doesn't
make sense to have a depends there either to not inflate depends for the
other non-perl tools, a recommends is just fine there too.
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