Re: Proposalto introduce compiler options passed from dpkg-buildpackage

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Moritz Muehlenhoff writes:
> [This message has also been posted to gmane.linux.debian.devel.general.]
> On 2007-12-25, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> wrote:
> > Matthias Klose wrote:
> >> This is a proposal to introduce a common set of compiler options which
> >> can be set independently from the package, and passed/injected to the
> >> package build process.  It was first discussed at the last UDS; a
> >> corresponding wiki page can be found at [1].
> >
> > A change like that is more or less required for the planned introduction
> > of security hardening features. Since noone really objected to the change
> > outlined, I'd be interested in the way forward from here and what timeline
> > is planned to set the changes into effect.
> 
> Matthias, what's the status?

thanks for the reminder; I did update the proposal and renamed the
environment variables to what Colin Watson did suggest. Bug #465282
now has a patch for dpkg-architecture attached.

  Matthias