Bug 459234 – dev-python/python-selinux can be deprecated

• Status: VERIFIED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Sean Santos 2013-02-26 05:31:13 UTC]

dev-python/python-selinux-2.16-r3 tries to install selinux_aux.so to /usr/lib/python2.x/site-packages/selinux_aux.so. This is hard-coded in the Makefile. However, multilib-strict requires it to be installed to /usr/lib64.

Reproducible: Always




Note that dev-python/python-selinux-2.16-r2 had a QA warning for not respecting LDFLAGS, which was bug 355675. This was solved by 2.16-r3, but that is still not stabilized.

[Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2013-03-17 10:17:35 UTC]

I might even drop the package if there is nothing depending on it. We don't use it in our SELinux bindings (since upstream support is sufficient) and it seems to be a gentoo-specific package.

[Comment 2 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2013-03-17 10:19:55 UTC]

Depending packages:

"""
dev-python/python-slip-0.2.21:selinux
sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.7_p1:selinux
"""

The portage version is old and masked already, so probably going to disappear soon.

For python-slip:
"""
net-firewall/firewalld-0.2.12
net-firewall/firewalld-0.2.9-r1
"""

I don't think these use the SELinux bindings

[Comment 3 Sean Santos 2013-03-17 16:55:27 UTC]

Actually, that makes me realize that I'm not sure why I have it installed anymore. "equery d python-selinux" yields nothing for me.

[Comment 4 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2013-04-06 13:14:12 UTC]

Ok, removed dependency from the python-slip and will mask the package.

[Comment 5 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2013-04-07 13:19:00 UTC]

mask set and last rites sent

[Comment 6 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2013-05-07 19:24:14 UTC]

Removed from tree