Hi,
several times, I ask for some explanations concerning libsafe, and the
possible incompatibilities it could produce, in the draksec presentation
screen.
Indeed, people may choose libsafe, but when they had pb, how are they able to
guess that it was libsafe ?
So let libsafe, but put an advertisement/warning in draksec and in the
package description at least.
It's like xalf. I had installed xalf and it took me one month to discover why
the Sun JDK was broken ! I uninstall xalf, and everything was fine.
Le Vendredi 31 Ao�t 2001 12:37, vous avez �crit :
> "Andrej Borsenkow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Gr�goire Colbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > > On Friday 31 August 2001 01:14 am, Borsenkow Andrej methodically
> > > > >
> > > > > organized electrons to state:
> > > > >> Remove libsafe. It is unmaintained and should be killed on the
> >
> > spot
> >
> > > > >> (and I do not understand why it is in distro).
> > >
> > > I'm answering to this part (don't have the original message),
> > >
> > > Libsafe is :
> > > - not unmaintained.
> > > - very usefull.
> >
> > The bug that was reported in original message was reported by me half a
> > year ago, in early beta stage of 8.0. 8.0 was released with this bug
> > that prevented KDE from working. You may call this "maintained" and
> > "useful". I have slightly different notion what it means.
>
> Be patient, this will be fixed.
> And if you're still not happy, please send a patch...
> It will be more usefull than complaining.
>
> > > If you think libsafe should be killed,
> > > then you don't know a damn thing about security.
> >
> > I think that creating external library that tries to replace libc
> > functions is silly (mildly put). Such library can exist only as part of
> > glibc and be build from *the*same*source* as glibc. Only then can such
> > library be trusted.
>
> So, bring your contribution and contact the libsafe authors,
> asking them if it would be possible to move their code into glibc.
> For exemple enabling instrumentation only if an environment variable
> is set.
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