Fedora 28 switched to libxcrypt. This package comes with its own manual page for the crypt(), crypt_r(), crypt_rn(), and crypt_ra() functions, but it is installed just as /usr/share/man/man3/crypt_rn.3.gz The problem is that the manual page files for crypt.3, crypt_r.3 remain and come from the "man-pages" package. These manual pages give obsolete and incorrect information, for example crypt(3) suggests in "RETURN VALUE" that on error a NULL is returned, which is no longer try in libxcrypt, as the crypt_rn(3) manual page correctly explains. I think crypt.3 and crypt_r.3 should be deleted from the man-pages package, and in the libxcrypt package we should have aliases for the existing crypt_rn.3 named crypt.3 and crypt_r.3.
Assigning to component 'man-pages' as they need to implement this first. Afterwards I can add the symlinks in the libxcrypt package…
Commits: f28: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/man-pages/c/3ae5cb295ceaf02e5dce83133c9a510a57b648f7?branch=f28 master: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/man-pages/c/6fd7a01b7de7390a85895b64dccf4b9be8fffc5c?branch=master
Björn, you should add the aliases as man pages sourcing the crypt_rn man page: .so man3/crypt_rn.3 rather than symlinks.
man-pages-4.15-3.fc28 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 28. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-236a0a8e67
Also, I think crypt_ra.3 alias should be added as well.
man-pages-4.15-3.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-236a0a8e67
Thank you! Will do so!
libxcrypt-4.1.1-2.fc28 man-pages-4.15-3.fc28 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 28. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-236a0a8e67
libxcrypt-4.1.1-2.fc28, man-pages-4.15-3.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-236a0a8e67
libxcrypt-4.1.1-2.fc28, man-pages-4.15-3.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.