[DSE-Dev] SELinux release goals for Debian Jessie ?

[Andreas Kuckartz]

Thanks a lot for this information!

Cheers,
Andreas
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Guillem Jover:
> Hi!
> 
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> 
> On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 10:37:20 +0200, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
>> Yesterday I searched a bit for further information and found these
>> mails/threads:
>>
>> Possible issues with dpkg SELinux support
>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2012/11/msg00004.html
> 
> All these issues should be fixed with 1.17.1.
> 
>> [PATCH RFC] Package script(let)s SELinux execution context
>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2012/11/msg00013.html
>>
>> [PATCH] libselinux: Refactor rpm_execcon() into a new setexecfilecon()
>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2012/11/msg00014.html
> 
> Upstream seemed to agree with the patch, but I guess it fell through
> the cracks. I added the equivalent code to dpkg directly, the same was
> done on the rpm side.
> 
> Having that upstream would allow to remove that local function from
> both codebases, but not after some time so that people can compile
> with old libselinux releases.
> 
>> Guillem, have these patches been applied? Are you aware of any open
>> issues regarding dpkg and SELinux?
> 
> There's <http://bugs.debian.org/707214>.
> 
> Thanks,
> Guillem