hi mattia,
umh? So, I read a bit the manpage, this was enough. IMHO, you gave up way too early, and I really much don't like it.
well, thanks for your patience. i did think that i had possibly figured out the correct way to do it, but i wasn't sure. it can be hard to tell if you've done something correctly or not. the fact that i can't "undo" mistakes with git makes me reluctant too. but now you've got me started, i am learning how to work with git-dpm. hopefully my contributions in the future will compensate you for your time and frustration in this instance.
as per your feedback, i have - added a patch to enable the bindnow hardening - fixed all the lintian warnings - amended the copyright period to be 2013-2014 and i believe it is ready for the next round of review. with thanks jonathon