From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: bug#30006: bzip2 does not provide libbz2.so Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2018 14:29:00 +0100 Message-ID: <87incft8tf.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44889) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eXoY4-0003ss-Cs for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jan 2018 08:30:09 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eXoXz-00017D-FJ for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jan 2018 08:30:08 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:57175) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eXoXz-00016w-Bc for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jan 2018 08:30:03 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eXoXz-0000vO-2B for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jan 2018 08:30:03 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44638) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eXoX7-0003eK-IG for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jan 2018 08:29:10 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eXoX2-0008Vh-Ks for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jan 2018 08:29:09 -0500 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([185.233.100.1]:45542) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eXoX2-0008Ui-Eo for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jan 2018 08:29:04 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hera.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1028E107B6 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2018 14:29:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hera.aquilenet.fr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id EdWgqHAX44eP for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2018 14:29:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from ribbon (unknown [IPv6:2a01:e0a:1d:7270:af76:b9b:ca24:c465]) by hera.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C6AB2FB27 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2018 14:29:01 +0100 (CET) List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: 30006@debbugs.gnu.org Our current bzip2 package does not provide libbz2.so: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ ls $(guix build bzip2)/lib libbz2.a libbz2.so.1.0 libbz2.so.1.0.6 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Consequently, software that uses libbz2 always ends up statically-linking it. Thus, security issues in libbz2 cannot be grafted. Ludo=E2=80=99.