oss-security - Re: Haskell programs in distributions (was: Rust programs in distrbutions (Was: CVE-2023-5217: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx))

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Message-ID: <20231001110346.GA25232@unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2023 13:03:46 +0200
From: Erik Auerswald <auerswal@...x-ag.uni-kl.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Haskell programs in distributions (was: Rust
 programs in distrbutions (Was: CVE-2023-5217: Heap buffer overflow in vp8
 encoding in libvpx))

Hi,

On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 07:28:46PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On Sat, 2023-09-30 at 13:00 -0400, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
> > It is also worth noting that Rust-the-language supports dynamic linking.
> > Once Cargo supports this and downstreams (like Fedora) obtain sufficient
> > build capacity, it will be possible to use dynamic linking by performing
> > automatic cascading rebuilds whenever a package is upgraded.  Arch
> > already does this for Haskell IIUC.
> 
> We do it for Haskell in Gentoo, too, but we have a dark secret: it only
> works because Haskell became unpopular. There are basically only two
> Haskell programs, and everything works for n = 2.

I am curious, what two prgrams do you think of?

I know of two Haskell programs I regularly use, Pandoc and ShellCheck.

Best regards,
Erik
-- 
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