Re: Hardening release goal blocker

[Kees Cook <kees@debian.org>]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:48:00AM +0700, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On 11-12-13 at 03:10pm, Kees Cook wrote:
> > Notably, I'm curious about this: 
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651964
> > 
> > I think this is broken behavior on CDBS's part, and that the "some 
> > packages" mentioned should be fixed so that all the other packages 
> > aren't hampered by the problem.
> 
> I would be happy to change CDBS to always behave sanely (i.e. make 
> CDBS_FIX_COMPILE_FLAGS=1 the default behaviour).
> 
> This wouldm however, require someone to do the work of investigating and 
> correcting any and all packages in the Debian archive that depends on 
> the older arguably broken behaviour.

I'd be happy to help getting some bugs opened and doing rebuild tests. Is
the failure condition easy to spot?

-Kees

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Kees Cook                                            @debian.org