Mimi Zohar: > [...] > (CC'ing Niels and Andrew) > > Support for including security.ima xattrs in Debian packages (Bug#766267 > ) required debhelper scripts. With the following two kernel patches, > GNU tar works without any other changes. Should we update the original > request or open a new one for adding pax support instead? > > 05d1a71 ima: add support for creating files using the mknodat syscall > 42a4c60 ima: fix ima_inode_post_setattr > > thanks, > > Mimi > Hi, (Apologies for the delay, I had hoped for an update from the dpkg maintainers first) * Feel free to reuse the existing debhelper bug for updates to the debhelper changes. * AFAICT, beyond debhelper providing stronger hashes, the PAX method would not require any other changes in debhelper. * If dpkg (and related parties) are happy with it, I, with my debhelper hat on, would be happy with this. - Although I have not looked at what this means for other packages of mine like Lintian. Thanks, ~Niels
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