Re: [Libtirpc-devel] [LTP] [RFC PATCH 1/1] rpc-tirpc: Remove authdes related tests

[Steve D. <St...@Re...>]

On 1/9/20 2:58 AM, Petr Vorel wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> ...
>>> or is it safe to expect that authdes is compiled out when authdes_create() returning NULL?
>> This was the way the glibc people suggested I do it... 
> Thanks for info (deprecating features in library is new thing to me).
> 
>>> I also decided to remove tests because authdes is deprecated and uClibc
>>> and musl does not provide DES authentication.
> 
>>> FYI I've sent patch to libtirpc to add authdes_seccreate() interface [1].
>>> [1] https://sourceforge.net/p/libtirpc/mailman/message/36889142/
>> This is fixed in tag libtirpc-1-2-6-rc1 which I just pushed upstream.
> Thanks!
> 
>> Is there anything else from my side that is needed?
> Hope distros will backport the fix soon.
> 
> Can you please either ack this patch or request we detect authdes support
> support (i.e. libtirpc < 1.2.5) and keep tests in this case?
The ack is done! :-)

steved.

> (I'd be for removing these tests, but if you consider them useful for testing,
> I'll do the detection).
> 
> Kind regards,
> Petr
>