Bug#779912: unblock: cdbs/0.4.128

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

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On 2015-03-06 11:58, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: unblock
> 
> Please unblock package cdbs
> 
> Package currently in unstable fixes these two serious bugs:
> 
> #770767: perl-build-vars.mk overrides $Config{ccflags}
> #772429: Does not support case-insensitve field names
> 

Thanks for fixing these. :)



> Additionally, the fix for #770767 is believed to also fix applying all
> default security-strengthening compiler flags for arch-any packages that
> uses a CDBS perl snippet.  Since that is a release goal, and since
> missing default flags may also lead to other breakage on i386 due to how
> that platform links perl code (see bug#770767), unblocking of cdbs
> should probably be followed by BinNMUs + unblock of e.g. all arch-any
> packages matching regext '^include\s+.*perl.*\.mk' for its rules file.

We might not want that actually.

> I don't know (and am not skilled so now is probably the wrong time to
> start if others can help) how to reliably locate such package list, but
> can do it among the packages I maintain myself which might be adequate
> (I am not alone in using CDBS but might be for perl libs specifically).
> 
> unblock cdbs/0.4.128
> 
>  - Jonas
> 
> [...]

Probably
http://codesearch.debian.net/results/include%5Cs+.*perl.*%5C.mk%20path:debian/rules/page_0

And then the "To see all packages which contain results:" cmd.

~Niels