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Re: Will NMU libwrap0...



Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org> writes:

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> On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 08:24:04PM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote:
> > I will NMU libwrap over the week-end to resolve the missing symbols
> > bug (for which there's a patch in the BTS). I've contected the author
> > 5 days ago without answer.
> > Any objections ?
> 
> (a) No, go ahead.

I'll do that.

> (b) Yes, I'm not convinced that program trying to use libwrap should
>     be able to get away with not defining allow_severity and
>     deny_severity.  And in any case I suspect the weak symbols should be
>     initialised to something meaningful rather than implicitly left as
>     `0' (LOG_INFO for allow and LOG_WARN for deny are what the other
>     tcp-wrapper utilities use).

I'll set the defaults to these.

The problem is that the semantics of linking shared vs static are
different... Most distribs provide static libwrap.a (for historic
reasons I guess, and because it's really small) and people using
libwrap never define these symbols because they get defaults in
libwrap.a...

Do you known if the libwrap.a defaults are these ?

Phil.


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