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Re: release goal proposal: enable hardening build flags



On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 07:01:13PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:38:29 -0700 Kees Cook wrote:
> > I would like to propose a release goal of enabling hardening build flags[1]
> > for all C/C++ packages in the archive[2]. 
> 
> I think "all C/C++ packages" is an impossibility in the wheezy
> timeframe, and we should be honest about that.  Something like "as many

Right, of course. I thought Moritz chose that language as the final goal.
The Wheezy-specific bits were the sub-goals.

> I see the subgoals as the quantifiable real goals, and we need to work
> to define these first.

Agreed.

-Kees

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Kees Cook                                            @debian.org


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