Re: nfs-utils library dependency littering - fork nfs-utils for Debian? Re: [patch] mount.nfs: Add support for nfs://-URLs ...

[Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>]

On 12/6/24 11:15 AM, Mark Liam Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 4:54 PM Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> wrote:
>> IMO, using a URL parser library might be better for us in the
>> long run (eg, more secure) than adding our own little
>> implementation. FedFS used liburiparser.
> 
> Yeah, another library dependency for Debian? First you try to invade
> Debian with libxml2 via backdoor, and now you try to add liburlparser?
> At that point I would suggest that Debian just forks nfs-utils and
> yanks the whole libxml&liburlparser garbage out and replace it with a
> simple line parser. Does the same job and doesn't litter Debian

This is a political screed rather than a technical concern. For one
thing, a fork certainly isn't needed to remove libxml2 or any other
library dependency -- all distributors carry local patches to such
packages.

In any event, I had thought that the Linux community preferred to
de-duplicate common functionality like this. If distributions want a
less secure, harder-to-maintain solution, then they are welcome to
speak up and explain themselves. That's what the review process is for.


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Chuck Lever