#1143950 libcrypt-password-perl: Upstream not maintained since 2012, has security issues; should not be released with forky

#1143950#5
Date:
2026-08-08 18:53:35 UTC
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Hi

libcrypt-password-perl has not been update upstream since 2012, and
has open security issues (CVE-2026-16235, CVE-2026-6656).

So rather than providing libcrypt-password-perl in Debian forky (which
got freshly introduced), we might keep it out of testing (or maybe get
it removed completely)?

Gregor, what is your opinion here?

Regards,
Salvatore

#1143950#10
Date:
2026-10-19 11:19:20 UTC
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Dear submitter,

as the package libcrypt-password-perl has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1150843

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

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