Re: Enabling hardened build flags for Wheezy

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> schrieb:
> Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org> writes:
>> Hi,
>>
>> dpkg-buildflags allows a uniform setting of default build flags for
>> code written in C and C++. 
>>
>> Using dpkg-build-flags in your rules files has a number of benefits:
>>[...]
>
> Should packages of Python extensions written in C and using
> distribute/setuptools worry about this, or will the debian setuptools
> package be patched to use dpkg-build-flags?

I haven't looked into C-based Python modules yet (it's still on
my TODO list), but we should strieve for a generic solution.

Cheers,
        Moritz