Bug#650536: ITM: Please review hardening-support branch to fix #650536 (Was: Re: Bug#650536: update!)

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2012-04-01 17:16, Niels Thykier wrote:
> [...]
> 
> I have rebased the branch and it is now available from [1] and I
> intend to merge it into master before we do the 2.5.7 release.
> As mentioned, I have added a new test suite hook[0], which some
> may (or may not) find controversial.
> 
> Assuming no comments/objections, I intend to merge the branch
> into master before the end of Easter.
> 
> ~Niels
> 
> [0] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/nthykier/lintian.git;a=commit;h=0ce4b89f515afac59358090174c5dd794e887e1e
> 
> [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/nthykier/lintian.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/hardening-support-rebased-ee869db
> 
> The "pre-rebase" variant is available as:
> 
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/nthykier/lintian.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/hardening-support
> 

Merged with some changes on the way:
 * Split Kees's second patch, merged + re-ordered some commits.
   - I only merged "minor" things into Kees commits to keep
     authorship fairly consistent.
   - Despite my changes, commits d44806c and e2544b2 are broken to
     some extend (first completely, second only on certain archs).
     - Note d44806c was broken due to infrastrucal changes done on
       my part interleaved with the given patch and not due to Kees.
 * Remove bindnow and nopie tags
   - It was not possible to trigger them (not enabled).
 * test calibration fix
   - I noticed that my original patch fails if the calibration
     removes a "Test-For" tag.

~Niels