Re: Bug#702349: lintian should not complain about hardening for package written in pure Ocaml
Le 06/01/2014 16:24, Moritz Muehlenhoff a écrit :
>> 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?
I just did that.
BTW, the OCaml build system is quite messy and it will take longer than
expected to "fix" it for hardening...
Cheers,
--
Stéphane
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