Am 2015-04-27 01:23, schrieb Ian Pilcher:
As part of my CentOS-to-Debian visionquest, I'm trying to enable
SELinux
on Jessie, but I haven't been able to install the policy:
E: Package 'selinux-policy-default' has no installation candidate
Does it simply not exist yet?
It isn't part of the Jessie release. The package had RC bugs during
the freeze that weren't fixed in time (one of them still isn't),
which caused the automated removal mechanism to remove it from
testing. (RC == release critical)
Information about the package (refpolicy is the source package):
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/refpolicy
https://tracker.debian.org/news/669803
RC bugs that weren't fixed within the deadlines set by the release
team for packages reentering testing during the freeze:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=756729
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771484
(one of them is now fixed, the other was marked fixed but has been
reopened since)
The unblock request by the maintainer with the denial by the release
team:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777205
New RC bugs since then (not fixed yet):
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=781571
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=781779
Basically, it boils down to the this:
Critical bugs in the package were not fixed within the required
deadlines before the release, thus this package was not part of the
release.
That said:
1. If you can live with the RC bugs (or work around them), you can
download the unstable package and install it manually.
2. There's always jessie-backports: when the package is fixed and
reenters testing (i.e. 'stretch'), then one could always backport the
package and add it to jessie-backports. But that also means that
someone has to care enough about this issue to do that.
Christian
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