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Re: fix for 445595 - smpeg NMU



On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 01:14:36AM +0000, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 August 2008 05:54, Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:49:49PM +0000, Russell Coker wrote:
> > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=445595
> >
> > The patch is broken. Next time, please guess that if there is a guard like:
> >
> >   #if defined(i386) && defined(USE_MMX)
> >
> > It's because the file is built on all architectures.
> 
> Are i386 and AMD64 the only architectures that support non-executable stacks?
> 
> If not then which architectures have this support?
> 
> How does the patch break things?  I don't think that adding a few bytes to a 
> shared object counts as breakage, in the case of security relevant bugs I 
> think it's best to err on the side of caution.


  I hope you know about buildd.debian.org right ?

  It fails like that:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496549
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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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