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Bug#924712: crypt() not available _XOPEN_SOURCE is defined

[Francesco Poli]

On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 13:46:36 +0200 Florian Weimer wrote:

> * Francesco Poli:
> 
> > Hello everyone,
> > I am sorry to ask, but... I cannot understand what's the status of
> > [this bug report].
> >
> > [this bug report]: 
> >
> > A serious bug for libc6-dev without any apparent activity since last
> > March?  Sure there must have been some hidden progress that I cannot
> > see.
> 
> We provided a solution acceptable to the reporter.  I do not think
> further action is needed on the glibc side.  The manual page needs to
> be updated to reflect the change, but that's not part of glibc.

OK, good.
Thanks for your prompt reply!

Why is the bug report being kept open, though?
Should it be reassigned to package manpages-dev and fixed there?


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Bug#924712: crypt() not available _XOPEN_SOURCE is defined

[Florian Weimer]

* Francesco Poli:

> Hello everyone,
> I am sorry to ask, but... I cannot understand what's the status of
> [this bug report].
>
> [this bug report]: 
>
> A serious bug for libc6-dev without any apparent activity since last
> March?  Sure there must have been some hidden progress that I cannot
> see.

We provided a solution acceptable to the reporter.  I do not think
further action is needed on the glibc side.  The manual page needs to
be updated to reflect the change, but that's not part of glibc.

Bug#924712: crypt() not available _XOPEN_SOURCE is defined

[Francesco Poli]

Hello everyone,
I am sorry to ask, but... I cannot understand what's the status of
[this bug report].

[this bug report]: 

A serious bug for libc6-dev without any apparent activity since last
March?
Sure there must have been some hidden progress that I cannot see.


I probably do not fully understand the issue: there seems to be a
transition going on, from some deprecated crypt() implementation to
libxcrypt. And this transition requires some small changes (basically
different #include and #define directives) in C code using crypt(),
if this code has to be recompiled on buster or later.
But these different requirements are not yet documented in the
appropriate [man page].

[man page]: 

Is this a decent summary of the situation?

If this is the case, should this bug report be reassigned to package
manpages-dev and fixed there?


Please clarify, thanks for your time and patience!   :-)

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