On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 12:22 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Hi, > > GHC (Haskell) was broken for (at least) over a year because of a bug in the > workaround for stupid SELinux restrictions: > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7629 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907515 > > How much breakage will we have to suffer until people finally realize that > SELinux is a horribly flawed idea? Of course restrictions implemented for security reasons will cause issues. I don't know why you keep posting cases and acting as if this will be news to someone. They happen, we get them fixed, everyone's lives improve. On the timeline of this one: as I read the reports, it was reported to upstream on 2013-01-25. It was reported to Fedora on 2013-02-04. The reporter tracked down and fixed the issue upstream on 2013-03-26. So one month and 22 days after it was reported to Fedora, a patch was available and could have been backported. In fact the patch was only backported to Fedora 19 on 2014-01-29. The delay from 2013-03-26 to 2014-01-29 was the Fedora maintainer's. Not to throw stones - maintainers are all busy - just to note the facts: this issue could have been resolved much faster, and SELinux is not the reason why it wasn't. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
