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

[Sven Joachim]

On 2016-09-15 08:14 +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:

> 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.

That would make lintian depend on devscripts.  I suppose this is not
really desirable, is it?

Cheers,
       Sven