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Re: New version of ncbi-blast+



On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 11:25:54AM +0200, olivier sallou wrote:
> For info, there is a remaining hardening lintian warning:
> 
> I: ncbi-blast+: hardening-no-fortify-functions
> usr/lib/ncbi-blast+/libxutil.so
> 
> As it is the only one, I suspect that compilation flags are not the same
> than other libs,

We have this *info* in a lot of packages.  I realised that the according
*warning* about lintian can usually be fixed by propagating LDFLAGS but
this *info* usually remains and I started to ignore this.  It might be
a false positive or something to dig for somebody else who is even more
concerned in hardening than me. :-)

> it might worth checking this upstream.
> I upload the package however in the meanwhile.

+1

Thanks for your work on this

     Andreas.

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