Re: Bug#702349: lintian should not complain about hardening for package written in pure Ocaml

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 08:57:01PM +0100, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> Le 05/03/2013 16:35, Niels Thykier a écrit :
> > Does ELF binaries produced by "pure" Ocaml have any distinct feature
> > that can be used to tell them apart from any other ELF binary?
> 
> ELF binaries produced by the OCaml compiler always include a bit of C
> code (the runtime), so they are never actually "pure".
> 
> I don't think that the lintian tag (whatever its level) should be
> removed at the moment. I am not planning to have a deeper looker at this
> issue before next release or next debconf, though.

Could you please add a note to https://wiki.debian.org/HardeningWalkthrough
that while Ocaml packages produce ELF binaries they are not covered by
the hardening effort?

Cheers,
        Moritz