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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Ladislav Hagara wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I would like to remove (deprecate) spell util-linux-crypto. It is very
> old, version 2.11r from 30-May-2002. It is BUILD_API=1 spell so instead
> of convert it to BUILD_API=2 I prefer to deprecate it.
>
> According to ledger [1] it is installed on 3 boxes. It is not installed
> on "live" boxes (updated last 30 days). I think nobody really use it.
> Crypto features were added to Linux kernel and standard util-linux long
> time ago.
>
> I plan to delete PROVIDES from spell util-linux,
>
> $ gaze provides UTIL-LINUX
> UTIL-LINUX:
> util-linux
> util-linux-crypto
>
> and fix DEPENDS (depends UTIL-LINUX) from basesystem spell.
>
> Any protests?
>
> [1]
> http://ledger.sourcemage.org/users/statistic.php?select=util-linux-crypto

As long as the same functionality that util-linux-crypto provides can
now be done with util-linux (which I believe is what you said above
;)) then I'm fine with deprecating it.

basesystem will probably need a PATCHLEVEL for the dependency change,
as will util-linux-crypto, of course.

- -sandalle

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