[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#655188: Bug#655188: Bug#655188: Needs rebuild for hardened build flags

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Mon Jan 9 07:10:39 UTC 2012


reassign 655188 release.debian.org
retitle nmu: avahi_0.6.30-5
thanks

On 09.01.2012 06:44, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 06:33:48AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> On 09.01.2012 06:02, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
>>> Source: avahi
>>> Severity: important
>>>
>>> Your package has already been converted to use the hardened build
>>> flags now emitted by dpkg-buildflags,
>>
>> Hm, not really. It used debhelper compat level 9 (for multi arch).
> 
> Yes, that's the case. But since I'm using these bug templates for
> multiple bugs, I've formulated them neutrally.
> 
> (I'm checking/submitting patches for all packages, which are of
>> = Priority:important and which had a DSA in the last five years)
> 
>>  but it needs a rebuild with
>>> current dpkg. I've tested in a local build that this properly
>>> enables hardened build flags.
>>
>> If that's the case, a binNMU would be sufficient, right?
>> Any reason you didn't file this as a binNMU request against
>> release.debian.org?
> 
> I don't think there's any hurry. I mostly filed the bug to track
> it for Wheezy. If you're planning to do another upload before the
> Wheezy freeze, simply add the bug closer to debian/changelog,
> otherwise I'll file a binNMU request.

Currently no upload of avahi is planned, so I'll just reassign it to
release.d.o.

Please schedule binNMUs for avahi so it is builds against a recent
enough debhelper which has hardening flags enabled.

thanks,
Michael


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