On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 07:22:39PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2014-07-08 Atsuhito Kohda <ko...@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 20:09:52 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> 
> > > Looks like lynx-cur is missing a build-dependency on
> > > libgcrypt20-dev as a hotfix or better use gnutls_rnd() instead of
> > > gcry_randomize() and stop linking against gcrypt. (Totally untested,
> > > no guarantees patch attached.)
> 
> > I only added libgcrypt20-dev to B-D and built the package, then
> > it seems lynx works fine so I uploaded the package.  
> > But if your patch is necessary to fix the problem properly, 
> > please let me know.
> 
> Hello Atsuhito,
> 
> thanks for fixing the issue.
> 
> it is less a "necessary" than a "I think it is ugly". ;-) Afaict (but
> please take this with a grain of salt) lynx is only using a single
> gcrypt function, and gnutls would provide something equivalent. So by
> using the gnutls function the external dependency could be avoided.
> Imho this should be fixed upstream.

probably (at least, to ensure that the given function is present, etc).

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