On 30.06.19 16:57, Sven Hartge wrote: > We would need to ship the special libs3 either as embedded code inside > the Bacula source package or package it as a separate libs3-bacula > package. Both will get an instant veto from the Security Team and the > Release Managers. (Debian Policy §4.13)
The main problem here is that libs3 is already in Debian, but in the ancient version 2.0 which doesn't even work with today's S3 anymore. (It really should be removed from Debian, to be honest.) After version 2.0, there have no new official releases been made by the upstream developer and looking at the commit history on Github it seems largely abandoned, aside from some merges PRs here and there. When Bacula Systems implemented the Cloud driver in 2016.12.09 it used the then git-HEAD of the library but it was still in flux back then, so any version a bit older or a bit newer will not work with Bacula, so even if Debian shipped a newer version, it would be incompatible with Bacula. Now, that special version from 2016.12.09 still contains some very jarring problems including buffer overflows or memory leaks. No distribution would want to support that code. But we already went over this back when 9.4.0 was released and Carsten and I tried to package the Cloud driver for Debian but gave up when it dawned on us what an ordeal it would be to achieve this in the constraints of Debian. Grüße, Sve.
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