Control: retitle 837658 libfl_pic.a is not compiled with -fPIC #837658 is different from many other PIE issues:
This is a _pic.a library that includes the non-PIC objects instead of the PIC objects it should contain. A binNMU with -fPIE would not fix the root cause that this library is supposed to contain PIC code. See the flex README.Debian for background. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed