Re: Security lessons from liblzma - libsystemd

On 03.04.24 23:19, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> When the code is this simple, we should definitely consider carrying it 
> ourselves. At least if we don't expect to need *other* functionality 
> from the same library in the future, which I doubt we will from libsystemd.

Well, I've long had it on my list to do some integration to log directly 
to the journal, so you can preserve metadata better.  I'm not sure right 
now whether this would use libsystemd, but it's not like there is 
absolutely no other systemd-related functionality that could be added.

Personally, I think this proposed change is trying to close a barndoor 
after a horse has bolted.  There are many more interesting and scary 
libraries in the dependency tree of "postgres", so just picking off one 
right now doesn't really accomplish anything.  The next release of 
libsystemd will drop all the compression libraries as hard dependencies, 
so the issue in that sense is gone anyway.  Also, fun fact: liblzma is 
also a dependency via libxml2.