Bug#926060: lintian: portable-executable-missing-security-features false positives

["Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>]

Hi Scott,

> > > I'm reasonably confident that clamav testfiles don't need hardening
> > > features, so [1] seems pretty pointless.
> > 
> > I don't disagree at all here but I'm wondering how Lintian would be
> > able to detect that these are test files? Perhaps I'm missing
> > something. :)
> 
> I don't know.  I didn't look into how the test was implemented.

I guess my question was less about how the Lintian test is implemented
but rather how Lintian might potentially be able to determine
these .exe files are for internal testing purposes of your package.

> [if] we should override the test for this package as a result,
> that's fine.

… I strongly suspect this is the case, yeah. If you agree, please
go ahead and -done this issue. Thanks either way, naturally. :)


Best wishes,

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