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has caused the report #559616,
regarding heimdal: Ships and links against an embedded code copy of sqlite
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Hello,
I received this bug report against Heimdal, in Debian.
Would it be possible to allow Heimdal autodetect and use the existing sqlite
system library as opposed to building its own copy?
Thanks
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 07:04:00PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Source: heimdal
> Source-Version: 1.3.1.dfsg.1-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: security
>
> This version creates a new libheimsqlite0 package, which is linked
> against a local copy of sqlite (located in ‘lib/sqlite/’, the whole
> source code is packed into 3 files).
>
> Embedding and linking against local code copies of system libraries is
> a problem for security and maintenanace reasons, please try to switch
> to use the one already packaged instead.
>
> thanks,
> guillem
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