[hardening-discuss] Bug#836162: diversions for linkers need an update

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 09:00:07AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Package: hardening-wrapper
> Version: 2.8+nmu2
> Severity: serious
> Tags: sid stretch
> 
> starting with binutils 2.27-6, binutils now ships the triplet prefixed binaries
> as files instead of symlinks.  hardening-wrapper now has to divert the triplet
> prefixed binaries.
> 
> however looking at the upload rate for hardening-wrapper, maybe it's just better
> to file issues to obsolete the use of hardening-wrapper instead.

I think we should remove hardening-wrapper for the stretch release? dpkg-buildflags/dh
are around for a long time now and we're down to about 50 reverse dependencies at
this point. Plus, lintian marks it as deprecated for quite a while now.

Kees, what do you think?

Cheers,
        Moritz