Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL for v2.3 01/01] seccomp: update libseccomp version and remove arch restriction

[Peter Maydell]

On 26 March 2015 at 14:37, Eduardo Otubo <address@hidden> wrote:
> I completely understand your concern. Perhaps a ping on libseccomp
> Fedora package maintainer would be a better way to tackle this issue
> instead of reverting this commit. Libseccomp 2.2.0 is released since Feb
> 12th and I actually gave it a little time frame for other distros to
> update their packages so we don't run into issues like this.

Well, we shouldn't really be mandating latest-and-greatest versions
of our upstream dependencies unless the maintainer of those dependencies
feels the earlier versions are so badly broken that it would be better
to refuse to use them at all.

> It's important to remember that this patch is also the proper fix for
> this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1363641

If that only applies to certain architectures we can make the
dependency version vary depending on which arch we're building
for, I suppose.

-- PMM