From f969693efbc861c713ecec1f30f3cc9518b193e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Esser?= Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 18:50:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update description of the compat package --- libxcrypt.spec | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/libxcrypt.spec b/libxcrypt.spec index 581582b..214c172 100644 --- a/libxcrypt.spec +++ b/libxcrypt.spec @@ -176,12 +176,15 @@ Summary: Compatibility library providing legacy API functions Requires: %{name}%{?_isa} == %{version}-%{release} %description compat -This package contains the library providing the compatibility API for -applications that are still using the unsafe and deprecated encrypt, -encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, and fcrypt functions. +This package contains the library providing the compatibility API +for applications that are linked against glibc's libxcrypt, or that +are still using the unsafe and deprecated, encrypt, encrypt_r, +setkey, setkey_r, and fcrypt functions, which are still required by +recent versions of POSIX, the Single UNIX Specification, and various +other standards. All existing binary executables linked against glibc's libcrypt should -work unmodified with this library. +work unmodified with the library supplied by this package. %endif @@ -359,6 +362,7 @@ done * Mon Jan 14 2019 Björn Esser - 4.4.2-4 - Bump SO-name for Fedora >= 30 and enable compat package (#1666033) - Add distribution README file +- Update description of the compat package * Sun Dec 23 2018 Björn Esser - 4.4.2-3 - Remove architecture bits from Recommends