Bug#1029753: perl: build-depend on libcrypt-dev explicitly

Niko Tyni ntyni at debian.org
Sat Jan 28 12:57:41 GMT 2023


On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 08:03:12AM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> Source: perl
> Version: 5.36.0-7
> Tags: patch
> User: helmutg at debian.org
> Usertags: rebootstrap
> 
> perl uses -lcrypt without depending on libcrypt-dev. This used to be ok,
> but we split libcrypt to src:libxcrypt and now libc6-dev has a
> transitional dependency on libcrypt-dev.  So while libcrypt-dev still is
> build-essential, it no longer is in a bootstrap setting (in order to
> solve dependency cycles) and given that so few packages actually need
> libcrypt-dev, we want to remove it from build-essential in the long
> term. As such there is no urgency to adding it right now, it also
> doesn't hurt. I'm attaching the obvious patch for your convenience.

Thanks. Just for the record, we're frozen now and based on the above
I assume there's no benefit in pushing this to bookworm. So I'll wait
until trixie development opens before including it.

Let me know if you'd prefer otherwise of course.
-- 
Niko




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