Re: [debian-devel] Re: security enhanced debian branch?

[Magosányi Árpád <mag@bunuel.tii.matav.hu>]

A levelezőm azt hiszi, hogy Matt Zimmerman a következőeket írta:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 09:07:02AM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> 
> > Second, any such effort shouldn't be a branch, but should be mainstreamed in 
> > Debian proper.  Please see http://wiki.debian.net/CustomDebian for a 
> > possible approach for this sort of project.
> 
> For cases where the added functionality is provided by additional packages,
> this is easy.  However, some of the things which are being experimented with
> include compiler patches to produce binaries which make certain types of
> exploits more difficult, and that kind of thing is not easy to merge into
> Debian proper.

I think this kind of stuff could be handled in new architectures. For
example the Adamantix project could be merged back by creating
an architecture i386-adamantix for the stack protected stuff, and 
the other parts being a "CDD" by the terminology of the above link.

(I do not know enough about the history of the project to tell if its
developers would consider merging back a good idea or an organisational
impossibility. But the main point is not about that, or even that project
in particular.)

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