news
Debian: Meme, SparkyLinux, and "The State of Chez Scheme in Debian"
-
Russell Coker ☛ Russell Coker: Packet Edit Meme and Debian SE Linux
There’s yet another GNU/Linux kernel exploit based on container functions, here’s the result when run as user_t on a SE GNU/Linux system: [...]
-
Sparky GNU/Linux ☛ Sparky news 2026/07
The 7th monthly Sparky project and donate report of the 2026: [...]
-
Gwen Weinholt ☛ The State of Chez Scheme in Debian
I have uploaded Chez Scheme 10.4.0 to Debian unstable. It has been a few years since there was a new Chez Scheme version in Debian, and that is all on me. 😅
The new release builds fine on all architectures according to the build logs. In case you missed it, Chez Scheme got an infusion of energy from the Racket people and gained portable bytecode support a few years ago. So for those architectures where there is no native backend, Chez instead generates portable bytecode.
There was a problem with m68k and hppa where they would sometimes get the wrong endianness for the portable bytecode, possibly depending on which buildd picked them up. But that should be fixed now as debian/rules constructs the machine type from Debian’s build variables.