Re: propolice for gcc 3.2.1

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Brad Spengler writes:
> I'm interested in if Debian would want to create a package for a
> propolice'd gcc.  I believe it would be very beneficial to enhance the
> security of a Debian system.  If you would like to have this, but don't
> want to take the time to do it yourselves, would you object to someone
> creating such a package where the only modification was the addition of
> propolice?  Would it be possible to have this included in the debian
> unstable package listing?  Thanks in advance.
> 
> For more info on propolice:
> http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/

best thing would be to submit this upstream. I doubt that we want to
apply to Debian's gcc. Please see the toolchain-source package and
look, if you can build a gcc variant with the patch applied.