On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 05:44:33PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > Moritz Muehlenhoff writes: > > [This message has also been posted to gmane.linux.debian.devel.general.] > > On 2007-12-25, Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Matthias Klose wrote: > > >> This is a proposal to introduce a common set of compiler options which > > >> can be set independently from the package, and passed/injected to the > > >> package build process. It was first discussed at the last UDS; a > > >> corresponding wiki page can be found at [1]. > > > > > > A change like that is more or less required for the planned introduction > > > of security hardening features. Since noone really objected to the change > > > outlined, I'd be interested in the way forward from here and what timeline > > > is planned to set the changes into effect. > > > > Matthias, what's the status? > > thanks for the reminder; I did update the proposal and renamed the > environment variables to what Colin Watson did suggest. Bug #465282 > now has a patch for dpkg-architecture attached.
That looks good to me. Maybe we should have individual default flags per architecture, so that features, which are buggy or not fully implemented on a given arch can be disabled so that the workarounds don't need to be done by the maintainers across several rules files? Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]