Please stop building libcrypt for multilib packages (Ubuntu 20.04)

[xalt7x]

Debian's bug
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=951880
Debian's resolution
https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/glibc/-/commit/e079ec4b53af427b238392edef40bb8fa9f55e62

During system upgrade user may receive unconfigured packages (grub-common, plymouth, network-manager etc) with error
/usr/bin/perl: /lib64/libcrypt.so.1: version `XCRYPT_2.0' not found (required by /usr/bin/perl)
Problem with limited version of libcrypt.so.1 from /lib64 which system tries to use first
After removal of libc6-amd64:i386 upgrade finished successfully.

[Halvor Lyche Strandvoll (halvors)]

0009:err:module:load_so_dll failed to load .so lib "/usr/lib/wine-development/../i386-linux-gnu/wine-development/wldap32.dll.so": /lib32/libcrypt.so.1: version `XCRYPT_2.0' not found (required by /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libkrb5.so.26)
0009:err:module:import_dll Loading library WLDAP32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Epic Games\\Launcher\\Portal\\Binaries\\Win32\\EpicGamesLauncher.exe") failed (error c000007a).
0009:err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Importing dlls for L"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Epic Games\\Launcher\\Portal\\Binaries\\Win32\\EpicGamesLauncher.exe" failed, status c0000135

[Halvor Lyche Strandvoll (halvors)]

Doesn't seem to be solved...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Halvor Lyche Strandvoll (halvors)]

So the problem here is that /lib32/libcrypt.so.1 is found first by the linker, similar to what's happening in Debian (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=951880) but in my case for lib32.

Seems the library in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcrypt.so.1 works just fine, my dirty workaround for this was to create a link: ln -s /lib32/libcrypt.so.1 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcrypt.so.1

This is a dirty workaround, and this really needs to be fixed as soon as possible. Steam and Proton as well as Wine packaged by Ubuntu is still depending on i386 libraries, and a lot of Ubuntu users use one of these software packages.

Can we please give this bug some more attention?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package glibc - 2.31-0ubuntu7

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glibc (2.31-0ubuntu7) focal; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/git-updates.diff: update from upstream stable branch.
    - Stop ignoring some float tests for the non-default armel multilib variant.
    - submitted-stt-gnu-ifunc-detection.patch: Remove, applied upstream.
    - 5828bc4523230685ac29a4a882967913255f5666.diff: Remove, applied upstream.
  * Merge with Debian packaging 4cb14efd231568673b889a1ddf095457a19a8acb.
    - Adjust the version number for the openssh-server break.
  * restore__glibc_has_include.diff: Remove, not needed anymore by gcc-N
    packages.
  * debian/sysdeps/*.mk: stop building libcrypt for multilib packages.
    Closes: #951880. LP: #1867432.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Thu, 02 Apr 2020 16:42:14 +0200