Re: seccomp woes (was: file(1) now with seccomp support enabled)

2019-07-20 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 at 00:21:10 +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > The build system of the file package uses autoconf to check for > presence of the seccomp library and will just disable that feature if > support is missing. But just adding "libseccomp-dev" will break the > build on e.g. alpha for an

Re: seccomp woes (was: file(1) now with seccomp support enabled)

2019-07-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 20, Christoph Biedl wrote: > * Centralize the list of supported archs in the seccomp packages. By > either creating an empty libseccomp-dev for the archs where seccomp > is not supported, or by creating a "libseccomp-dev-dummy" for these. > In the latter case package maintainers woul

Re: seccomp woes

2019-07-19 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 00:21:10 +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > * Centralize the list of supported archs in the seccomp packages. By > either creating an empty libseccomp-dev for the archs where seccomp > is not supported, or by creating a "libseccomp-dev-dummy" for these. > In the latter case

Re: seccomp woes

2019-07-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Christoph Biedl writes: > * Centralize the list of supported archs in the seccomp packages. By > either creating an empty libseccomp-dev for the archs where seccomp > is not supported, or by creating a "libseccomp-dev-dummy" for these. > In the latter case package maintainers would have to

seccomp woes (was: file(1) now with seccomp support enabled)

2019-07-19 Thread Christoph Biedl
Russ Allbery wrote... > Christoph Biedl writes: > > > tl;dr: The file program in unstable is now built with seccomp support > > enabled, expect breakage in some rather uncommon use cases. > > Thank you very much for doing this! Here's hoping this sets a trend. It > will provide so much defense