Bug#628516: dpkg-buildflags: add some no-effect flags

2011-05-29 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Do you often need to verify if a package supports dpkg-buildflags? > In what context? I can think of some: - wanting to be sure that setting hardening flags on these packages through the dpkg-buildflags mechanism will actually work; - guaging whether the mechanism

Bug#628516: dpkg-buildflags: add some no-effect flags

2011-05-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sun, 29 May 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Matthias Klose wrote: > > There is more than a handful of packages which do not care about > > dpkg-buildflags yet in debian/rules. Currently it's difficult to > > tell if a package build honors dpkg-buildflags or not. The only way > > to do this

Bug#628516: dpkg-buildflags: add some no-effect flags

2011-05-29 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Matthias, Matthias Klose wrote: > There is more than a handful of packages which do not care about > dpkg-buildflags yet in debian/rules. Currently it's difficult to > tell if a package build honors dpkg-buildflags or not. The only way > to do this currently is to edit the config files for a

Bug#628516: dpkg-buildflags: add some no-effect flags

2011-05-29 Thread Matthias Klose
Package: dpkg-dev There is more than a handful of packages which do not care about dpkg-buildflags yet in debian/rules. Currently it's difficult to tell if a package build honors dpkg-buildflags or not. The only way to do this currently is to edit the config files for a test rebuild. The i