Re: Debian / SE/Linux - libselinux1 needs to be set priority "important" or "required"

Re: Debian / SE/Linux - libselinux1 needs to be set priority "important" or "required"

[Florian Weimer]

* Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton:

> a number of SE/Linux-based upstream patches to packages (coreutils,
> logrotate, sysvinit), are being held up because libselinux1 is at
> present incorrectly set to priority "optional".

Isn't full SELinux integration a bit risky in the light of Secure
Computing's patents?

How do other distributors deal with this issue?  Do they ignore it
entirely?

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Re: Debian / SE/Linux - libselinux1 needs to be set priority "important" or "required"

[Stephen Smalley]

On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 07:06, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Isn't full SELinux integration a bit risky in the light of Secure
> Computing's patents?

The NSA has commented on this issue, e.g. see
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=selinux&m=104506596009834&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=104506496507929&w=2
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/faq.cfm#I22

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