On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 08:03:12AM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Source: perl > Version: 5.36.0-7 > Tags: patch > User: helm...@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
