Bug#511069: ITP: libcrypt-salt-perl -- generate salt to be fed into crypt()

[Damyan Ivanov]

tags 511069 wontfix
thanks

-=| Damyan Ivanov, Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 10:56:46AM +0200 |=-
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Damyan Ivanov <d...@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : libcrypt-salt-perl
> 
> The package is a dependency of 'clive-utils', which is spun-off 'clive'
> upstream and rewritten in Perl.
> 
> FTP-masters, the actual code in this package would be the following
> function, the rest is POD, makefiles etc stuff.
> 
>  sub salt
>  {
>     my $length = 2;
>     $length = $_[0] if exists $_[0];
> 
>     return join "", ('.', '/', 0..9, 'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z')[map {rand 64} 
> (1..$length)];
>  }
> 
> There was a recent rejection[1] of a similar package.
> 
>     [1] 
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-perl-maintainers/2008-December/017000.html

clive-utils upstream just reimplemented the salt() twoliner in their 
code, so the package is no longer needed.

I am tagging wontfix as the package is no-go for the reasons stated in 
the reject above.

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