Bug#711193: Mark hardening-wrapper/includes as deprecated build-depends
Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org> writes:
> Packages should not Build-Depend on either of these packages and their
> functionality, but rather use the superior dpkg buildflags solution.
> Attached patch accomplishes that packagers are warned when they
> build-depend on one of these packages.
Well, given that I have a package that Build-Depends on hardening-wrapper,
I should probably reply here. :)
dpkg-buildflags is all fine and good if the upstream source lets you
override compiler flags easily. If, however, it doesn't,
hardening-wrapper is much easier to deal with than trying to patch all the
places in the upstream source where the compiler flags have to be changed
and then updating that patch for various versions of upstream source. In
the case of openafs, this is a known bug that upstream is working on
(slowly) by untangling the flags used to build the kernel module (which on
platforms other than Linux cannot be user-tunable) and the flags used to
build userspace, so doing the work to hack in Debian's flags in the
meantime seems like a lot of wasted effort.
What problem are you hoping to solve with this Lintian tag?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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