On 05.09.2016 18:52, Russ Allbery wrote: > Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> writes: > >> Package: lintian >> Version: 2.5.46 >> Severity: important >> Tags: sid stretch >> User: debian-...@lists.debian.org >> Usertags: hardening-wrapper > >> This package builds using the hardening-includes package, which >> is now replaced by dpkg-dev's DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS settings. > >> Please consider dropping the build dependency of hardening-includes >> and use the DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS settings. > >> The goal is to remove hardening-wrapper for the stretch release. >> Discussion about the removal is tracked in https://bugs.debian.org/836162 > >> The severity of this report is likely to be raised before the release, >> so that the hardening-wrapper package can be removed for the release. > > Hi Matthias, > > Lintian doesn't depend on hardening-includes for hardening-wrapper. > Rather, it uses it for the hardening-check script, which it runs as part > of Lintian checks, and it build-depends as well as depends on it because > it runs the script as part of its test suite. > > Is there a replacement source for that script?
I'll leave that open to the package maintainers, hoping we'll get a reply ... maybe the script is the only thing which we'll need to keep, or we'll need to find a new home for that script. I don't know. However all the diversion business should go away for stretch. Matthias