Re: Bug#974087: Updating dpkg-buildflags to enable reproducible=+fixfilepath by default
Hi!
On Mon, 2020-11-16 at 02:33:53 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-11-14 at 11:15:03 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> > > Adding more hurdles does not help.
> > > I think this is a hurdle we do not need.
> >
> > To me, a one-line change in packaging seems like a quite small hurdle in
> > the short-term, but clearly you do not agree.
>
> This being just a default change that can be overridden with a one
> line modification, seems to me also to be quite unobtrusive. More so
> when we have things like hardening that people are overriding all over
> the place w/o much of an issue.
>
> > So it really comes down to applying opt-in patches for hundreds (maybe
> > thousands) of packages, or an opt-out change for somewhere in the
> > ballpark of tens or hundreds of packages.
>
> Yes, that's my view too. I had the patch queued in dpkg for my next
> push, but I've pulled it out for now given the raised concern, but
> I'm not seeing a very strong case here to not include it again TBH.
Ok, I'm doing this now and will reinstate the patch into the queue to
be part of my next push.
Thanks,
Guillem
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