[hardening-discuss] Bug#615262: The hard linking is recent in binutils

[Mats Erik Andersson]

May I direct your attention to the fact that 'binutils'
very recently began to ship a hard link in the binary
package, thus this bug is more probably caused by
'binutils' than by 'hardening-wrapper'.

My development system using testing/i386 is not yet
bitten by this bug, but unstable/kfreebsd-amd64 is
severely impeded ever since I reported #617441.

  binutils_2.21.0.20110327-3_i386.deb

      lrwxrwxrwx root/root   ./usr/bin/ld -> ld.bfd

  binutils_2.21.51.20110421-3_kfreebsd-amd64.deb

      hrwxr-xr-x root/root   ./usr/bin/ld link to ./usr/bin/ld.bfd

However, in the presence of 'hardening-wrapper' the location
'/usr/bin/ld.bfd' is a soft link. Therefore the hardlink install
must fail. Right?