Bug#836756: lintian: please drop the build dependency on hardening-wrapper
On 05.09.2016 18:52, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Package: lintian
>> Version: 2.5.46
>> Severity: important
>> Tags: sid stretch
>> User: debian-gcc@lists.debian.org
>> Usertags: hardening-wrapper
>
>> This package builds using the hardening-includes package, which
>> is now replaced by dpkg-dev's DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS settings.
>
>> Please consider dropping the build dependency of hardening-includes
>> and use the DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS settings.
>
>> The goal is to remove hardening-wrapper for the stretch release.
>> Discussion about the removal is tracked in https://bugs.debian.org/836162
>
>> The severity of this report is likely to be raised before the release,
>> so that the hardening-wrapper package can be removed for the release.
>
> Hi Matthias,
>
> Lintian doesn't depend on hardening-includes for hardening-wrapper.
> Rather, it uses it for the hardening-check script, which it runs as part
> of Lintian checks, and it build-depends as well as depends on it because
> it runs the script as part of its test suite.
>
> Is there a replacement source for that script?
I'll leave that open to the package maintainers, hoping we'll get a reply ...
maybe the script is the only thing which we'll need to keep, or we'll need to
find a new home for that script. I don't know. However all the diversion
business should go away for stretch.
Matthias
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