From: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
To: Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>
Cc: Sven Vermeulen <sven.vermeulen@siphos.be>,
SELinux@tycho.nsa.gov, Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>,
Joshua Brindle <brindle@quarksecurity.com>
Subject: Re: Last version of policycoreutils using Fedora only API
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 08:10:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <519E073F.80803@tycho.nsa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130523095747.22818ef6@soldur.bigon.be>
On 05/23/2013 03:57 AM, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> Le Thu, 23 May 2013 07:30:18 +0200,
> Sven Vermeulen <sven.vermeulen@siphos.be> a écrit :
>
>> On May 23, 2013 1:09 AM, "Laurent Bigonville" <bigon@debian.org>
>> wrote:
>>> The last release of policycoreutils is using a function
>>> (selinux_current_policy_path()) that is only available in Fedora. I
>>> guess this shouldn't have made upstream.
>>>
>>> An idea how this could be sorted for other distributions?
>>
>> Please see my answer to Joshua's announcement on the new userspace.
>
> Oh thanks, I messed this.
>
>> You'll need to add in the function.
>
> Well I'm not a big fan of adding function in libraries that are not
> merged upstream. IIRC eparis told me on IRC that he has not happy with
> this new functions.
Maybe we should back out the relevant changes and cut another release?
I agree that it is wrong for an upstream release to have Fedora-specific
dependencies.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-23 12:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-22 22:53 Last version of policycoreutils using Fedora only API Laurent Bigonville
2013-05-23 5:30 ` Sven Vermeulen
2013-05-23 7:57 ` Laurent Bigonville
2013-05-23 12:10 ` Stephen Smalley [this message]
2013-05-23 12:30 ` Daniel J Walsh
2013-05-23 12:36 ` Joshua Brindle
2013-05-23 12:43 ` Daniel J Walsh
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