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

Moritz Mühlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Thu Sep 15 06:14:25 UTC 2016


On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:03:51PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 05:17:06PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Yeah, it (and hardening-includes) should get removed in favor of
> the dpkg-buildflags method.  However, this means we need to move the
> "hardening-check" script from hardening-includes to lintian, probably.

Ack. devscripts might be more appropriate, though.

Cheers,
        Moritz



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