On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 1:33 PM Steve Langasek
<steve.langasek@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 11:35:07AM -0300, Andreas Hasenack wrote:
> > Hi, I have a question for the MIR (Main Inclusion Request) team members,
>
> > New version of nfs-utils upstream (src:nfs-utils in main) pulled[1] in
> > code (regex.c file) from another upstream project[2], for which we
> > have a package in universe: src:libnfsidmap-regex
>
> > Would this require another MIR review? I mean, in general, once a
> > package is in main, we don't apply the MIR guidelines to it anymore,
> > and they can usually change the code as the project sees fit.
> > It just so happens this time we have this exact scenario where the
> > code that was pulled already exists and is the sole purpose of
> > another, universe, package.
>
> > My options are basically:
> > a) have src:nfs-utils build bin:libnfsidmap-regex and remove
> > src:libnfsidmap-regex from the archive
> > b) build src:nfs-utils without producing bin:libnfsidmap-regex, and
> > keep building src:libnfsidmap-regex from universe as usual
>
> > Option (b) will incurr in delta with debian. I believe[3] Debian will
> > eventually remove/obsolete src:libnfsidmap-regex
>
> > 1. http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/nfs-utils.git;a=commit;h=940caffdfb9953a2ccfecec81664e4a179753461
> > 2. https://github.com/isginf/libnfsidmap-regex
> > 3. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=925022#20
>
> I think you should submit it for an additional MIR review if and only if
> there is reason to consider the new library security-sensitive. (If it's a
> library that will be used by one of the NFS daemons, that's a good reason to
> think it's security-sensitive.)
Yeah, it's an libnfsidmap plugin that applies regular expressions to
NFSv4 usernames and group names that come over the wire in the form
user@DOMAIN and group@DOMAIN.
What if I keep bin:libnfsidmap-regex, built from the new
src:nfs-utils, in universe? With a remark in d/control that it should
not be promoted to main without a specific new MIR?
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