On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 09:00:07AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Package: hardening-wrapper
> Version: 2.8+nmu2
> Severity: serious
> Tags: sid stretch
>
> starting with binutils 2.27-6, binutils now ships the triplet prefixed
> binaries
> as files instead of symlinks. hardening-wrapper now has to divert the triplet
> prefixed binaries.
>
> however looking at the upload rate for hardening-wrapper, maybe it's just
> better
> to file issues to obsolete the use of hardening-wrapper instead.
I think we should remove hardening-wrapper for the stretch release?
dpkg-buildflags/dh
are around for a long time now and we're down to about 50 reverse dependencies
at
this point. Plus, lintian marks it as deprecated for quite a while now.
Kees, what do you think?
Cheers,
Moritz
