On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 4:04 PM Petr Pisar <ppi...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 02:35:13PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 01:50:55PM +0100, Joe Orton wrote: > > > > > 4. The benefit we want to preserve from modules is to maintain packages > > > with varying expectation of quality, specifically separating the > > > build-time-only vs runtime dependencies. e.g. in that case that a web > > > server like Eclipse Jetty is required as a dep for testing another > > > component during the build, we want to be able to use and build that > > > component, without being indefinitely on the hook for security errata. > > > (The build dependency tree is particularly complex for Maven and > > > involves many examples of packages with frequent and high severity > > > vulnerabilies) > > > > What are you doing different in terms of supporting deps in the module > > that reduces the security errata burden, compared to non-modular builds ? > > > > It feels like if we have some policy that is creating unsustainable > > maint burden wrt non-modular packaging, we should re-examine this > > policy rather than trying to workaround it by going modular, which > > creates a different kind of maint burden. > > > In non-modular Fedora all packages that we have in Fedora build system (Koji) > are tagged into Fedora repositories and made available to all users on their > computers for any purpose. That implies that all packages in Fedora build > system > must be fully supported including addressing all security issues. > > In modular Fedora that's (effectively) not true. Packages that only exist > for the sake of building other packages (i.e. build-only dependencies) can be > retained in the Fedora build system and never left it. That means those > packages are never made available to Fedora users and thus a service level for > them is significantly lower. E.g. no security fixes, not bug fixes, no > integration, not tests, no API/ABI stability. The only requirement is that > they can be built and used for building other packages. > > I wrote that it was not effectively true. There is probably no such policy > that would de jure allowed lowering the service level for the build-only > packages. But at the same time there is nobody who could enforce it. Users do > not have the packages, security team does know about them, they cannot break > a compose, and they do not intefere with packages from other modules. The only > place where they are visible is dist-git and Koji. Thus they only need to pass > a review (a legal requirement).
+1 That is very well put, thanks Petr for explaining it in detail. > > -- Petr > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
