Re: Enabling hardened build flags for Wheezy
Hi,
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> Personally I think this is completely the wrong approach to take for
> compiler hardening flags. The flags should be enabled by default in
> upstream GCC and disabled by upstream software where they result in
> problems. The compiler hardening flags have been tested over N years
> by RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu, Gentoo and probably others. The approach
> Debian is taking (as opposed to Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu etc) means
> that software compiled outside of the packaging system will not
> benefit from the compiler's hardening flags. Doing it in this way also
> violates our social contract.
Not sure it's a good idea to reignite this, specially this late into
the Wheezy development cycle (and specially in debian-devel). This has
already been discussed in detail:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=552688
Regards,
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